nested loop within Mechanize

Perlbeginner1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hello monks :)

it's waaay too long i haven't been coding (at all), and especially coding in perl, so please forgive me for this dumb dumb dumb question.

I haven't found it answered, so either I can't even properly search or it's so dumb nobody ever dared to ask. my need : I've got two arrays, say

Well i am currently working on a small solution: I have tried various tutorials (examples of Mecha - that i have found on the net) not oll of them work - some of them are broken!

Now i try to get some real-world-task! This is much more interesting for me as a Perl-beginner
i start with a Mechanize-job, which sure can be done with LWP too. But at the beginning i want to keep it pretty simple. Well i need Mecha - particularly for doing the form based search and selecting the individual entries.

goal: i have approximatley 100 pages to parse
they are organized like that:

http://www.address/307.html
http://www.address/308.html
http://www.address/309.html
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Hmm - i guess that the algorithm would be basically only one nested loop: hmm - one outer loop runs the form based search, and yes: one inner loop processes the search results.

well i did it like this one here:


use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
my $url = "here the urls go in ";

$mech->cookie_jar->set_cookie(0,"start",1,"/",".test.com");
$mech->get($url);
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It's really really !!! just one loop, isn't it?


foreach my $url (@urls) {
   my $response = $ua->post($url, \%data);
   my $result = parse_response($response);
}
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well the thing is pretty simple - i need to do two things with Mechanize
- particularly for doing the form based search and
- selecting the individual entries and parse them

well what do you say?!

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Re: nested loop within Mechanize by Anonymous Monk on Oct 03, 2012 at 18:57 UTC
well what do you say?! I say what is the question? Does Re: Perl :: Mechanize - running a single while loop and Re^5: optimizing a parser running HTML::TableExtract to fetch only some labels and values [row by row] help?	[reply]
Re^2: nested loop within Mechanize by Perlbeginner1 (Scribe) on Oct 03, 2012 at 19:25 UTC
Hi there - well the question is - should i output the results to the screen or can i create a csv result	[reply]
Re^3: nested loop within Mechanize by Kenosis (Priest) on Oct 03, 2012 at 20:52 UTC
Doesn't the form of your output (screen\|csv\|other) depend upon the purpose of your parsing the approximately 100 pages?	[reply]
Re^4: nested loop within Mechanize by Perlbeginner1 (Scribe) on Oct 03, 2012 at 20:58 UTC


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