Hi bcdeery,

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"Yes this worked. When it prints URI it gives the original url, but when I print the code to a file, I can verify that it has indeed gone to the correct page. Any idea why that is?"

It is because the content of the page is dynamically generated. The URL is the same, but the content of the page is different because you submitted the form with the values needed to process your input (inserting values into the form fields and setting "hdnAction" = "Calculate"). As for dealing with the output, I prefer to use HTML::TokeParser or HTML::TokeParser::Simple to parse out the data I want from the HTML tags. I prefer this method to using a regex as you can't always depend on good quality data, and these modules are tried and tested :) Read the module documentation get the drift of how to use them, I wont post an example as there are good examples to work with in the docs.

Hope this helps.

Martin

In reply to Re^3: Mechanize and javascript (yes, another) by marto
in thread Mechanize and javascript (yes, another) by bcdeery

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