Im new to perl and trying to create a webspider to pull specifics. The first problem I am having is with selecting all the options of an option select box. For the time being I just slected the first entry and I am able to pull the page contents. I then Striped the HTML tags off but cant seem to figure out how to split the information I dont need off the page and get ride of the white space. Here is my code 
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use Time::Local;
use POSIX 'strftime';
use HTML::Strip;
#use Whitespace;

my($url) = 'http://www.blankurl.biz';
my($pageCheck) = "";
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck =>1);
my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();

$mech->agent_alias('Linux Mozilla');

$mech->get($url) or die "Page $url can't be reached";
print "Made it past the url test";

my($form) = $mech->forms();

$mech->field("lstLeedRating","5, 8");

$pageCheck = $mech->click_button(name => "btnSearch");

    if($pageCheck->is_success){
             print $pageCheck->content;
             }
        else {
             print STDERR $pageCheck->status_line, "\n";
             die "Page with those fields not found!";
             }

my $page = $mech->content;

my $clean_text = $hs->parse( $page );

$hs->eof;

print $clean_text;

open(FH, ">test.txt");

close(FH);

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I greatly appreciate any and all help anyone may have to offer. Thanks again!

In reply to Web Spider problem by bauer1sc

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