I am having trouble with my loop. The intent is to: 1) Fetch a page 2) Look at forms for input fields 3) Look at input fields for regex matche3s 4) Submit only those forms that match the regex. I am receiving the following output:

X:\Scripts>perl formspider.pl
Hit form loop on form:1
Hit inputfield loop
Setting submit=0
Setting submit=0
Setting submit=0
Setting submit=0
Hit inputfield loop
Setting submit=0
Setting submit=0
Hit inputfield loop
Setting submit=0
Setting submit=0
Setting submit=0
No such field 'firstname' at X:/Perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 57
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So it doesn't look like it's incrementing $formcount, and it is not submitting the right form. Here's my code:

#!/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";
my $submit="1";
#Create new WWW::Mechanize object
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new ;

#Fetch URL or Die Tryin'
$mech ->get("http://www.example.com/") ;
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 
my $formcount=1;
print "Hit form loop on form:$formcount\n";
foreach my $form (@webforms) {
    my $submit=1;
    my @inputfields = $form->param;
    #Examine each input field
print "Hit inputfield loop\n";
    foreach my $inputfield (@inputfields) {
        if($inputfield =~ m/(F|f)(irst)?name/) {
            $mech->set_fields( $inputfield => $fname);
            print "matched firstname regex\n";
        }
        if($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);
        } else {
        $submit="0";
        print "Setting submit=0\n";
        }
    # Submit Completed Form or Die Tryin'
        if($submit=="1") {
            print "submitting request to form:$formcount\n";
            $mech ->submit_form($formcount) ;
            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 ;
        }
    
    }
$formcount++;
}
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Help!?! Thanks!

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