The point I was trying to make is that the form items that need to be posted contain square brackets 
  user[email]=                   (email)
  user[password]=                (password)

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I imagined people in this group who know www::mechanize would see the issue help me understand how to pass this to the from as the obvious way to me does not work

As I said I'm only just learning www::mechanize and whilst searching for help I saw people write that members of this site know www;:mechznize.. 

$agent->submit_form(
    form_number => 1,
    fields      => { user[email] => $login, user[password] => $passwor
+d },
);

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syntax error at ./mechaM.pl line 20, near "user[" Execution of ./mechaM.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

In reply to Re^2: www::mechanize matchup.io form and clicking by Anonymous Monk
in thread www::mechanize matchup.io form and clicking by rocteur

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