debian man page for whois

Whois(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						Whois(3pm)

NAME
       Whois - Perl extension to make queries to the whois servers

SYNOPSIS
	 use Whois;

	 $whois = new Whois('Host' => 'whois.ripe.net');

	die("Failed to create object") unless(ref($whois));

	die($whois->GetError()) if($whois->GetError());

	if($whois->Query("BAT-RIPE")) {
	   printf("Query error: %s
", $whois->GetError());
	   exit;
	}

	my $result = $whois->GetResult();

	if($result) {
	   print "$result
";
	}
	else {
	  printf("No results: %s
", $whois->GetError());
	}

	$whois->Close();

DESCRIPTION
       Stub documentation for Whois was created by h2xs. It looks like the author of the extension was negligent enough to leave the stub
       unedited.

       Blah blah blah.

AUTHOR
       Timur Bakeyev <timur@ripe.net>

SEE ALSO
       perl(1).

perl v5.10.1							    2003-08-07								Whois(3pm)