I need to access a web based select list box using the perl module mechanize. The html is: 
<tr><td bgcolor="#ABABAB" align="center"><b>Rename a Folder</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#DCDCDC" align="center">
<form action="folders_rename_getname.php" method="post">
<tt><select name="old">
         <option value="">[ Select a folder ]</option>
<option value="Evaluation-Folder">Evaluation-Folder</option>
<option value="Evaluation-Folder/Evaluation-Sub-Folder-1">Evaluation-F
+older/Evaluation-Sub-Folder-1</option>
</select></tt>
<input type="submit" value="Rename" />
</form></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="left">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

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The code: 
    $n = 'old';
 
    $mech->select( $n, "Evaluation-Folder/Evaluation-Sub-Folder-1",1);
   $mech->submit('Delete');

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The error response: 
Input "old" not found at Web_Mail_Evaluation_suite.pl line 596
Can't call method "value" on an undefined value at /Library/Perl/5.8.6
+/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1137.

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Any ideas of what i could do to access a selection?

Respectully yours, Thelma Vance, thelma1944@netzero.com

In reply to mechanize accessing a listbox by thelma1944

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