Re^4: HTML stripper in WWW::Mechanize doesn't seem to work

I don't think content() returns an array. I checked the source code and this is what i see

sub content {
    my $self = shift;
    my $content = $self->{content};
    return $content unless $self->is_html;
    ### More stuff there...
    .....
    .....
    return $content;
}
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Looks like it is just a scalar. Does not look like any reference to an array either so I guess it is a scalar. So he should be able to store it in one element of his array.

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Re^5: HTML stripper in WWW::Mechanize doesn't seem to work by Nkuvu (Priest) on Aug 01, 2005 at 04:20 UTC
Good point. As mentioned previously, when I first replied to this I didn't have WWW::Mechanize installed and based my reply on the OP's comment. But later this evening I did install the module. And what do you know, the original script worked just fine. I did test the script with my suggestion for using an array and join, and it worked fine. Of course joining a scalar does nothing, so that obscured the success of the original script (my change worked despite the join, not because of it).	[reply]

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Re^5: HTML stripper in WWW::Mechanize doesn't seem to work
by Nkuvu (Priest) on Aug 01, 2005 at 04:20 UTC

Good point. As mentioned previously, when I first replied to this I didn't have WWW::Mechanize installed and based my reply on the OP's comment. But later this evening I did install the module. And what do you know, the original script worked just fine. I did test the script with my suggestion for using an array and join, and it worked fine. Of course joining a scalar does nothing, so that obscured the success of the original script (my change worked despite the join, not because of it).

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