I'm trying to use get practice by writing a script that goes on a site, uses the forms on the site to choose a country, and scrape the desired information. Here's what I have. 
#!C:/Perl/bin -w
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::Parser;
use strict;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my %form = "country_form_0";
my $i = 0;
my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$agent->timeout(60);
my @fields = ("country", "years1%5B%5D","c_tab","idbtable");
my $url = "http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/country.php";
my @countries=("GI","GR","GL","GJ","GQ","GT","GK","GV","PU","GY","HA",
+"HO","HK","HU","IC");

my @years =("2000","2001","2002","2003","2004","2005","2006","2007","2
+008","2009","2010");

my @tabs =("0","1","2");
for(1..4){
my $response = $agent-> post($url, $forms
[    "country" => $countries[$i],
    "years1%5B%5D" => $years[0],
    "c_tab" => '0',
    "idbtable" => '0'
]);
my $cont = $agent->request($response);
print "$cont";
$i++;
}

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For some reason though, the script isn't working. I am getting the error "Global symbol @forms requires explicit name at etc..."



I'm pretty sure that I am using hashes wrong and that is causing the problem, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Any suggestions?



Similarly, how should I better write this? This can't be the best to accomplish this, right?

Thanks for all the help.





On a completely unrelated topic, what is with the painfully slow page load time? Is it just me? Or does everyone have this problem?

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