help with hash reference

lazybowel has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hey i have a problem with using mechanize... im trying to find a link on a page but i dont know how to get it to return the url this is the following command

$link = $mech->find_link( url_regex => qr/hello.you/i );

it always returns a hash refrence i cant get it to return the actual link

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Re: help with hash reference by quester (Vicar) on Apr 01, 2007 at 07:27 UTC
According to the documentation for WWW::Mechanize, it should return a WWW::Mechanize::Link object. In the documentation for WWW::Mechanize::Link you should be able to get the actual URL with the url method of the object, like so: `$url=$link->url();` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: help with hash reference by f00li5h (Chaplain) on Apr 02, 2007 at 02:26 UTC
`$link->URI()` will also give you one of Uri's URI::URL objects, which will stringify nicely. I'd imagine that you can also do whatever the regex was to do by calling `$link->URI()->param` or other methods to get or replace which ever bits or the uri you want to change `@_=qw; ask f00li5h to appear and remain for a moment of pretend better than a lifetime;;s;;@_[map hex,split'',B204316D8C2A4516DE];;y/05/os/&print;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]