How can i recognize a button having same name

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Hi , I had written a code to integrate Mechanize module in my program. ...... ......... $agent->click('Button'); after this statement , it will load a html page containing five buttons having same name and different values. In that i would like to click on the 4th button... how can i do that? I wrote like this, but its failed (Getting server error...)

 
 ### Previous form submission
  $agent->click('Button');
  #### End

  my $form = $agent->current_form;
  my $update = $form->find_input('FormButton','view',4);
  my $request = $update->click($form);
  $agent->{req} = $request;
  $agent->_do_request;
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This is not working.... ----------------------------- This is my html code having more buttons with same name..

<html>
<head>
<title>Account</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">

<form method="POST" action="abc.asp">
  <div align="center"><center><table border="1" width="600" cellspacin
+g="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr>
      <td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" 
+cellpadding="0">
        <tr>
          <td width="100%" bgcolor="#000080"><font face="MS Sans Serif
+" color="#FFFFFF"><small><strong>&nbsp;
            Account</strong></small></font></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td width="100%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><table border="0" width="
+100%" cellspacing="0"
          cellpadding="0">
            <tr>
              <td width="57%"><font face="MS Sans Serif">&nbsp; <input
+ type="submit" value="Find"
              name="FormButton" style="font-family: MS Sans Serif">&nb
+sp; <input type="text"
              name="SearchAccount" size="17" style="font-family: MS Sa
+ns Serif"></font></td>
              <td width="43%"><div align="right"><p><font face="MS San
+s Serif">&nbsp;  <input
              type="submit" value="Apply" name="FormButton" style="fon
+t-family: MS Sans Serif"> <input
              type="submit" value="Save" name="FormButton" style="font
+-family: MS Sans Serif"> <input
              type="submit" value="View" name="FormButton" style="font
+-family: MS Sans Serif"> <input
              type="submit" value="Close" name="FormButton" style="fon
+t-family: MS Sans Serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;
              </font>
                </div>
              </td>
            </tr>
          </table>
          </td>
        </tr>
        
        <tr align="center">
          <td width="100%" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"><table border="0" width="
+100%" cellspacing="0"
          cellpadding="0">
            <tr>
              <td width="28%"><font face="MS Sans Serif">&nbsp; Sales 
+Reps</font></td>
              <td width="15%"><font face="MS Sans Serif"><input type="
+text" name="Sales_Rep" size="9"
              style="font-family: MS Sans Serif" value=""></font></td>
              <td width="15%"><font face="MS Sans Serif"><input type="
+text" name="Sales_Rep2" size="8"
              style="font-family: MS Sans Serif" value=""></font></td>
              <td width="17%"><font face="MS Sans Serif"><input type="
+text" name="Sales_Rep3" size="8"
              style="font-family: MS Sans Serif" value=""></font></td>
            </tr>
          </table>
          </td>
        </tr>
        </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  </div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Please post a solution. Regards

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Re: How can i recognize a button having same name by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 07, 2003 at 11:15 UTC
At the moment there isn't a simple way. There is an open bug on the issue.	[reply]
Re: Re: How can i recognize a button having same name by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2003 at 11:27 UTC
adrianh, Is there any solution? If you have any idea, pls post a comment here. Regards,	[reply]
Re^3: How can i recognize a button having same name by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 07, 2003 at 12:08 UTC
There's a hack to get around it listed in the bug report I referenced. There is no "nice" way of doing it unfortunately. I just switched to not having multiple buttons with the same name. Getting easier testing with W::M was worth the (minor) effort.	[reply]
Re: Re^3: How can i recognize a button having same name by Anonymous Monk on Jul 07, 2003 at 12:33 UTC
Re^4: How can i recognize a button having same name by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41 UTC
Re: How can i recognize a button having same name by revdiablo (Prior) on Jul 07, 2003 at 20:49 UTC
Instead of your version: `$agent->{req} = $request; $agent->_do_request;` [download] You might want to try: `$agent->request($request);` [download] This seems to be the new internal method instead of `_do_request`. Apparently it takes in the `$request` object as a parameter, rather than requiring you to set it manually with `$agent->{req}`. Note: this is completely untested. I just looked at WWW::Mechanize's perldocs and made an educated guess. :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]