I had few questions related to mechanize module during my previous threads. Hats off to all the monks who gave great advise.

What I want to do is have the user enter first name and last name something like

print STDOUT "\nEnter name: ";
$name = <STDIN>;
chomp $name;
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Assuming that use enters first and last name fallowed by a space. Then I was to split it by space get the first name and last name and use the fallowing code that I have to fill the form.

My current problem is when I submit the form I don't get any results back. I am trying to figure out how do I get the results back from ancestry dot com relative to the form that I submit.

Here is the code I have

use Text::Soundex;
use WWW::Mechanize;
#use MakeRegex;
$DEBUG = true;
$SOUNDEX = 0;

print STDOUT "\nEnter First name: ";
$firstname = <STDIN>;
chomp $firstname;

print STDOUT "\nEnter Last name: ";
$lastname = <STDIN>;
chomp $lastname;

my $url = 'http://www.ancestry.com/';
my $mechObject = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$mechObject->get($url);
die "can't get page!" 
  unless $mechObject->success &&
          $mechObject->content =~ /Your First Name/i;
  
die "can't find form!"
  unless $mechObject->form_number(2);

my @values = ($firstname, $lastname, [option => 'M']);
die "couldn't fill out form!"
  unless $mechObject->set_visible(@values) == 3;

$mechObject->submit;
die "can't submit form!" 
  unless $mechObject->success && 
          $mechObject->content =~ /Your Last Name/i;
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Very Sorry, Totally forgot, as a result of above code, it spits out the html code of the first page of ancestry dot com webpage

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