in reply to WWW::Mechanize::Firefox question

$mech->click_button(name => 'Get anagrams');

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is the thing that should work. You don't tell me how it fails for you, so I can't advise further on that front.

If WWW::Mechanize::Firefox tells you

I don't know which form to submit, sorry.

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... that means that there is more than one form on the page. Use ->form_name or ->form_number to set the "current form", as documented in WWW::Mechanize::Firefox.

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Re^2: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox question
by Joie (Initiate) on Oct 16, 2012 at 03:23 UTC

    Thank you for your reply. I played around with it some more and looked at the form information on the page. I realized that there were 2 forms, I amended the code to: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new();

print "What word would you like to know the anagrams of?\n";
my $word = <STDIN>;
$word = chomp( $word );

$mech->get( 'http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html' ) or die "Un
+able to access page.\n";

$mech->form_number(2);
$mech->field( 'anagram', $word );
$mech->submit_form;
wait until $mech->success();

print $mech->content;

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    Now it has no error messages; however, it seems to be printing the original website, rather than the results of my query.

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       wait until $mech->success(); ?? That seems like an error
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