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in reply to how to submit html form?

It's as easy as :
use WWW::Mechanize ; my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new ; my %conf = ( foo => bar ) ; $m->get("http://your.url/") ; die $m->res->status_line unless $m->success ; # Choose form number $m->form_number(1) ; # Fill $m->set_fields( %conf ) ; # Submit $m->submit ; die $m->res->status_line unless $m->success ; # If the form sends you somewhere, you can catch it : my $url = $m->response->request->uri->as_string ;
Then if you want to process HTML data from a page, I recommend you use HTML::TreeBuilder, for example as :
$m->get("$url") ; die $m->res->status_line unless $m->success ; my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content( $m->content ) ;

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