How to get the name of an input which is on a HTML form

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

Hi,
I have accessed the www.google.com page using mechanize and got all the inputs on the form in to an array using find_all_inputs() method which had returned the reference to the list of inputs... Could any one let me know how can i get the name of each input.

Thanks

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Re: How to get the name of an input which is on a HTML form by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2008 at 10:57 UTC
As the documentation says, The controls returned are all descended from HTML::Form::Input. And looking at the HTML::Form(::Input) documentation, I find the `->name` method, which likely does what you're looking for.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to get the name of an input which is on a HTML form by wazoox (Prior) on Oct 13, 2008 at 11:50 UTC
As a side note, please check Google terms of use. I think they forbid explicitly screen-scraping of their site, so it would probably be better to use one of their API instead.	[reply]
Re: How to get the name of an input which is on a HTML form by johndageek (Hermit) on Oct 13, 2008 at 16:02 UTC
Yes, please check the terms of service. They will cut off service to an IP address, such as a corporate proxy. p.s. it WAS noticed and discussed internally (or should discussed be in caps?) Enjoy! Dageek	[reply]