How to handle multiple select in WWW::Mechanize?

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

Hi Guys, I'm using WWW::Mechanize in my project. I met a problem that I can not handle a <select> input with multiple property correctly. Below is part of the html page:

<form name="queryfoo" method="Post">
  <select name="options" multiple>
     <option value="1">OPT1</option>
     <option value="2">OPT2</option>
     <option value="3">OPT3</option>
     <option value="1835">OPT4</option>
     <option value="2487">OPT5</option>
  </select>
</form>

My code is like below:

$mech->form_name("queryfoo");
my $form = $mech -> current_form;
my $input = $form->find_input('options');
$input->value('3');
$mech->click('Run');
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But I always get a Illegle Value error? Did I do this wrong? And I'm wondering how to set multiple value for this input? Thank you all in advance

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Re: How to handle multiple select in WWW::Mechanize? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 22, 2008 at 08:04 UTC
http://www.mail-archive.com/libwww@perl.org/msg04173.html	[reply]
Re^2: How to handle multiple select in WWW::Mechanize? by phio (Acolyte) on Apr 22, 2008 at 08:39 UTC
Thanks you :-) After googling for a while, I find http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Perl/comp.lang.perl.misc/2005-07/msg00757.html helpful, I now using the following scheme to set multiple value for a <select> input, and it works well. `$mech->select("options", ['1', '3']);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]