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

I'm using the following code to extract the hidden values from an HTML page. Is there any way that I can extract only specific hidden values or any other values matching the criteria defined in look_down method. In this case I want only recid1,country values

I tried passing array reference to name, but it isn't working for me...any Ideas please

use strict; use warnings; use HTML::TreeBuilder; my $t = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file(*DATA); my @hidden_inputs = $t->look_down( _tag => q{input}, type => q{hidden}, name => q{recid1}, ); for my $hidden_input (@hidden_inputs){ printf qq{*%s*\n}, $hidden_input->attr(q{value}); } __DATA__ <html><head> <title>Data</title> </head> <form name="action"> <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1"> <tr> <td>File name</td> <td>From To</td> <td>Svc</td> <td>Period</td> <td>Seq#</td> <td>Reason for Rejection</td> <td>Next Action</td> <td>Country</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sample.XML</td> <td><a href='dch_redirect?refer=10293377&ref=10293377'>USA-IND</a></ +td> <td>Voice</td> <td><input type="hidden" name="recid1" value="10293377">2009/08</td> <td>03386</td> <td>data already exists</td> <td><input type="checkbox" name="c_1"></td> <td><input type="hidden" name="country" value="America">USA</td> </tr> </body></html>