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in thread Proper use of HTML::Form for exctracting

Thank you ! This helped a lot. But it returns the whole content of the web page. I've tried to change tagname=body to tagname=form but it only returns blank page
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Re^4: Proper use of HTML::Extract for extracting
by poj (Abbot) on Aug 27, 2018 at 14:56 UTC

    Are you expecting to see the text you typed into the input box from this page ? 

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="MyForm" action="/cgi-bin/ex.cgi",method="post",id="f1">
<input type="text" name="textfield">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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    Why don't you want to use the CGI module ?

    poj
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      Yes ,that's what I want to do. I didn't use CGI.pm because i thought it's not being used anymore (correct me if i'm wrong i'm new in perl)
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        i thought it's not being used anymore

        It's no longer a core module since version v5.22. If you are just parsing form parameters take a look at CGI::Simple.

        #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::Simple;
my $q = CGI::Simple->new;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><body>\n";
print $q->param('textfield');
print"</html></body>";

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Re^4: Proper use of HTML::Extract for extracting
by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 27, 2018 at 14:51 UTC

    there is no form tag on perlsphere.net.

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