Dear fellow monks, I need to write an app that opens an Internet Explorer browser and navigates to a certain URL, say www.google.com. Then, I should grab whatever text the user enters in the search form of the page. Is there a way to do that through Win32::OLE?
Reading http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/04/21/win32ole.html has helped me navigate to the requested URL and see the events printed in my screen but I haven't found info on how to get the user typed info after the click of the 'Search' button.
Any help would be appreciated! 

use Tk;
use Win32;
use Win32::OLE qw(EVENTS);

$mw = new MainWindow (-title => "Application to replicate user data fr
+om web page");

# simple buttons to close IE or application
$mw->geometry("350x100+200+200");
$mw->resizable(0,0);
$customfont = "helvetica 10";

my $closeexlorerbutton = $mw -> Button(-text => "Close IE", 
    -font => "fixed 10 bold",
    -height => "1",
    -width => "14",
    -command =>\&closeie)
    -> place(-x => 200, '-y' => 50);

my $exitbutton = $mw -> Button(-text => "Cancel", 
    -font => "fixed 10 bold",
    -height => "1",
    -width => "14",
    -command =>\&exitProgram)
    -> place(-x => 50, '-y' => 50);

# open browser window and navigate to URL 

my $URL = "http://www.google.co.uk";
$IE  = Win32::OLE->new("InternetExplorer.Application")
    || die "Could not start Internet Explorer.Application, Win32::OLE:
+:LastError()\n";
Win32::OLE->WithEvents($IE,\&Event,"DWebBrowserEvents2");

$IE->{visible} = 1;

$IE->Navigate($URL);

Win32::OLE->MessageLoop();

MainLoop;

sub exitProgram {
    my $response = $mw -> messageBox(-message=>"Are you sure you want 
+to exit?",
              -type=>'yesno',
                -icon=>'question');
    if ( $response eq "yes" or $response eq "Yes" ) {      
        exit;
    }
}

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