in reply to Subroutine &main::get error

my $page = $webcrawler->get ('http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=479598');

See also the replies to your previous post Syntax error for WWW::Mechanize, in particular Re^3: Syntax error for WWW::Mechanize

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

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