Thanks for responding. The reason I Thought that delete and die might work is that die is in the documentation as an internal method (so I thought it was worth a try) and I seen delete used in the documentation for HTML::TreeBuilder (so I thought that it may be a method that is common to all perl objects in the same way that there is a set of methods that are inherited by all Java objects from Java's object class). Gibberish was a control on my experiment, as i did not expect it to be defined at all for anything.

I assume this is a misunderstanding as for the sharing objects between programs. I do not want to do this I just want to call routines from another file and have them return objects (with the added benefit of having a reference to that object in the caller and callee file). This will work in java and is done pretty much as I described. If the code that I provided is saying something else, let me know, I do want to improve my perl understanding

Again thanks for your time

Ah, I see now that you are loading the "other script" via require. A more common approach would be to turn the first "script" into a Perl module, by naming it with a .pm extension and then loading it, still via require or use.

As memory management in Perl is mostly automatic, you don't have to do anything special to release the WWW::Mechanize object (as its documentation does not mention anything special either). If you want to reuse the same WWW::Mechanize object over and over, just store it in a variable at script startup and then use it from there:

package DownloadUtils;
use strict;
use vars '$mech';

sub get_mech {
    WWW::Mechanize->new();
};
$mech = get_mech();

sub get_file {
    $mech->get("$url", ':content_file' => "$file");
};

1;
[download]

If you only simply want to download some URLs, LWP::Simple might be the easier approach. But it offers less convenience when it comes to cookies etc.

Thanks again, I want to interact with forms and that is a big reason I choose Mechanize and at first glance, it does not appear that simple will do that. If you know of any package that does and is easier, please let me know.