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

Dear Monks,
I tried to find how to feed WWW::Mechanize with HTML instead of URL without changing the module. One way is to read it from file like 
my $url  = "file:///D:/webpage.html";

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but then I need to indicate a root which I do not want because it is changing and also I need to write HTML to this file which is also not good.

Basically what I need is to parse HTML and get all links from there with some conditional filtering.

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Re: WWW::Mechanize reading HTML
by afoken (Chancellor) on Sep 12, 2011 at 18:09 UTC
    Basically what I need is to parse HTML and get all links from there with some conditional filtering.

    Use a HTML parser, like WWW::Mechanize does. WWW::Mechanize uses HTML::Form and HTML::TokeParser. Involving WWW::Mechanize in analysing a HTML file is just nonsense.

    Alexander

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      Thanks a lot! I used HTML::TokeParser which inputs HTML. Works perfect.
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Re: WWW::Mechanize reading HTML
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 12, 2011 at 18:19 UTC

    Relative to current work dir: 

    use URI::file qw( );

my $url = URI::file->new_abs("webpage.html");

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    Relative to script dir (assuming you didn't change work directory): 

    use Cwd       qw( realpath );
use URI::file qw( );

my $url = URI::file->new("webpage.html")->abs(realpath($0));

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Re: WWW::Mechanize reading HTML
by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 12, 2011 at 18:08 UTC

    Have you looked at the WWW::Mechanize documentation? Especially the ->update_html method sounds like what you need.

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