I would like to use WWW::Mechanize to look for forms that contain certain fields and automatically populate them with predetermined information. The catch is that I don't know PRECISELY what the field names will be. I want to fill out things that roughly match "FirstName, fname, Fname, etc" and was wondering if this is a good place to use regular expressions. Here is the code I'm using: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use WWW::Mechanize ;

#Prepopulated Information
my $fname="Test";
my $lname="User";
my $address="1234 Example Street";
my $city="New York";
my $state="New York";
my $zip="10010";
my $phone="2135555555";

#Create new WWW::Mechanize object
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new ;

#Fetch URL or Die Tryin'
$mech ->get("http://your.url/") ;
die $mech ->res->status_line unless $mech ->success ;

#Return list of forms found in the last fetched page to hand off to HT
+ML::Form
my @webforms = $mech->forms();
#Examine each form 
foreach my $form (@webforms) {
    my @inputfields = $form->param;
    #Examine each input field
    foreach my $inputfield (@inputfields) {
        if($inputfield =~ /(F|f)(irst)?name/) {
        $mech->set_fields( $inputfield => $fname);
        }
        if($inputfield =~ /(L|l(ast)?name/) {
        $mech->set_fields( $inputfield => $lname);
        }
        if($inputfield =~ /(A|a)ddress[123]?/) {
        $mech->set_fields( $inputfield => $address);
        }
        if($inputfield =~ /(C|c)ity//) {
        $mech->set_fields( $inputfield => $city);
        }        
        if($inputfield =~ /(S|s)tate//) {
        $mech->set_fields( $inputfield => $state);
        }
        if($inputfield =~ /(Z|z)ip//) {
        $mech->set_fields( $inputfield => $zip);
        }
        if($inputfield =~ /(P|p)hone//) {
        $mech->set_fields( $inputfield => $phone);
        }
    # Submit Completed Form or Die Tryin'
    $mech ->submit ;
    die $mech ->res->status_line unless $mech ->success ;
    # If the form sends you somewhere, you can catch it :
    my $new_url = $mech ->response->request->uri->as_string ;
    }
}

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Thanks!

In reply to Submit HTML Forms with WWW:Mechanize by stanislav5000

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