I have searched and I seem to be striking out. Have a web page (well a bunch of them) that I am scraping - pulling together the permissions off of a Sharepoint site (WSS actually). Am using Mechanize and TokeParser to scrape the main parts of the page. When it comes to testing for the icon and the underlying Javascript, these methods fail. So I found a section of HTML where the forward arrow would be located between two tags with unique classes. So I was going to grab the area between the tags and then test and extract the http address. Source HTML: 
.........<TD align=center Class="ms-vb" id="bottomPagingCell"><table><
+td nowrap class="ms-paging">1&nbsp;-&nbsp;100</td><td> 
            <A HREF="javascript:" OnClick='javascript:SubmitFormPost("
+http:\u002f\u002fwdcbeta.sharepointsite.net\u002f_layouts\u002fpeople
+.aspx?Paged=TRUE\u0026p_FSObjType=0\u0026p_Title=Michl\u002520Non\u00
+26p_ID=119\u0026View=\u00257b4B73D499\u00252dCD8D\u00252d4DE4\u00252d
+ABB5\u00252d1911503FA95C\u00257d\u0026FilterField1=ContentType\u0026F
+ilterValue1=Person\u0026MembershipGroupId=0\u0026PageFirstRow=101");j
+avascript:return false;'><img src="/_layouts/1033/images/next.gif" bo
+rder=0 alt="Next"></A></td></tr></table></TD></TR>
<TR><TD class="ms-bottompagingline3">.......

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The code: 
my $stream2 = $mech1->{content};
(my $stream_chunk) = $stream2 =~ /bottomPagingCell(.*)bottom/; # <----
+ fails here 
if (/javascript:SubmitFormPost\(\"(.*)\"\)/)
{
mech1->get($1);
}
else
{
# no new page 
}

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It fails to find the first regex match. Seems like the quotes in the javascript is killing the match. Any suggestions? Update: It is failing to find the section of HTML, part of which is above.

In reply to quotes in HTML killing regex by jhoskins98

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