I see from your question on Stackoverflow that the id changes each time, so to find the id of the search link you could use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath 
use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;
# ...
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new_from_content($content);
my $id = $tree->findvalue('//a[@title="SEARCH"]/@id');

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I'm not familiar with Win32::IEAutomation but the "button" you need to click on is actually a link so change getButton() to: 
$ie->getLink('id:', $id )->Click();

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That may not work as it is a javascript function - onclick="dispatch()" - if it doesn't you will need to examine the javascript to see where the link is going to and what parameters it has, then you could probably use LWP::UserAgent to access.

In reply to Re: web automation button clicking problems by tangent
in thread web automation button clicking problems by MicrobicTiger

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