instead of normal hyphens/dashes, i.e. U+2010 (8208) (HTML -)

Oy, I knew something was up when the character went unicode in the c tags. Thank you for taking the time to point it out. I like to preserve the vertical space in my threads for replies, so will put new code, comments, and questions in readmore tags:

Thanks for your comment,

Aldebaran that's cool!

The question I ask myself at this stage is whether I want all the functionality to go into a script or shall I create some high-level functions or even a class and store into the module. I usually prefer the latter and in most cases a class. For example, in your case you need to read the API key from the configuration each time you send for a translation. That can probably be stored in your class. So you get functionality like:

use My::Translator;

my $trans = My::Translator->new(Config => 'config.txt');
my ($ret, $conf) = $trans->translate("abc xyz");
print "output is '$ret' with confidence $conf %\n";
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but even without a class/OOP you get a nice high-level API like:

use My::Translator;
my $conf = Config::Tiny...
my $prep = My::Translator::prepare_with_some_transformations("abc xyz"
+);
my ($ret, $conf) = My::Translator::translate($prep, $conf);
print "output is '$ret' (via $prep) with confidence $conf %\n";
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btw, if you have any scripts you want installed via make install, then insert an EXE_FILES => ['bin/myscript.pl'] into Makefile.PL as a parameter to WriteMakefile() (e.g. just below PL_FILES => {},. In this way make install will install your script(s) along with any module files.

Edit: I also find useful setting temporarily (when doing my own tests) INSTALL_BASE => '$ENV{HOME}".'/usr', as a parameter to WriteMakefile() will install this module in user's own /home/user/usr dir which does not require admin rights.

I was hoping to see a response from bliako, as I've been nibbling away at his recent meditation git-push target for Makefile (via ExtUtils::MakeMaker). This response gets long without even trying, so more between readmore tags:

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Thanks for your comments,