I posted a SOPW an hour or so ago on the same script, different problem.

This snippet errors out but it doesn't tell me an error. 

        ############################################
        # At this time we are LOGGED IN, so off to the TRADING POST
        ############################################
print "1";
        $mech->get($url2);
print "1a";
        $mech->submit_form(
        form_name => "trade1",
        fields      => {
          "criteria" => 'Lot Number',
          search_string => "$lotnum"
        }
        ) or die "Error: $!";

print "2";

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It results in 
11a
Software error:

 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1492.

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Those are test prints so I can see where it stops. Do I have a syntax error? If it helps, I used a fake form name to get it to error out intentionally but it doesn't! So it's something else.

Mechanize is initialized long before this snippet and works for everything else but this.

In reply to WWW::Mechanize erroring out without producing an error line by Anonymous Monk

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