Hi All,

I'm using the following WWW::Mechanize to retieve all links on an HTML page:

@link = $mech->find_all_links(url_regex => qr/=\w\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}/)

The page has references to the same link several times and i'd like to know how to remove the duplicate links from the array before i get the link using:

foreach my $page (@link) {
$mech->get ($page);
}

I tried using the following, which seems to be the standard way:

undef %saw;
@saw{@link} = ();
@out = sort keys %saw;

WWW:Mechanize complains though when it tries to retrieve the resultant though, not sure if this is because it's a hash.

The error reported is:

Error GETing WWW::Mechanize::Link=ARRAY(0x1e4c14c): Protocol scheme 'www' is not supported at G:plan_resident_1.pl line 67

With line 67 being $mech->get ($page);

Any help or suggestions appreciated.

In reply to WWW::Mechanize link array de-dup by MAC25

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