WWW::Mechanize::Firefox Navigate Issue !

Matt™ has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Mons, I have a doubt regarding the below codes. Can you pls suggest a way?

Is there a provision to pass a string to it like below,

my $Pager = "submit";
my $find_button = $mech->xpath('//*[@id="$Pager"]', single => 1 );
$mech->click( $find_button );
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Its not getting me through! Giving an error like 'NO elements found'

Thanks in advance.

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Re: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox Navigate Issue ! by aitap (Curate) on Nov 04, 2012 at 08:10 UTC
You need an interpolating quote operator: `my $find_button = $mech->xpath(qq{//*[\@id="$Pager"]}, single => 1 );` [download] _{Edit: forgot to escape "@"} Sorry if my advice was wrong.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox Navigate Issue ! by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2012 at 08:54 UTC
cough `Possible unintended interpolation of @id in string at - line 1.`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox Navigate Issue ! by hippo (Bishop) on Nov 03, 2012 at 14:45 UTC
Using single quotes like you have in your example supresses variable substitution in Perl just like it does in bash. See what happens here: `my $bcount = 5; print "I ate $bcount biscuits "; print 'I ate $bcount biscuits ';` [download] Use single quotes for literal strings, use double quotes for interpolation (including variable substitution.	[reply] [d/l]