On 8/10/07, Kelly Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've scraped an HTML page and gotten back a string that looks like this:
>
> [... bunch of stuff I don't care about ...]
> <form action="foo.php" method="POST">
> <input type="hidden" name="val1" value="someval">
> <input type="text" name="val2" value="anotherval">
> <select name="selectfield">
> <option value="foo">bar
> <option value="lala" SELECTED>some text here
> <option value="thirdval">boing
> </select></form>
> [... bunch of stuff I don't care about ...]
>
> Is there a Perl module that will take this string and return a hash
> representing the current (default) form values. IE,
>
> $HASH{'val1'} = "someval";
> $HASH{'val2'} = "anotherval";
> $HASH{'selectfield'} = "lala";
>
> Ideally, the hash would include the field type, form action URL, etc,
> but I'd be satisfied w/ just the name/value pairs.
>
> I'd then like to edit the HASH and re-"formify" it to get a string
> suitable for POSTing (like
> "val1=someval&val2=anotherval&selectfield=lala").
>
> I don't think HTML::FillInForm does this, unless I'm misunderstanding it.
>
> I realize there are many issues here (some form values are lists, not
> scalars-- people are lazy about using </option> close tags, etc), but
> I figured there's a module out there that does this.
>
> Is there or should I roll my own?Check CPAN for WWW:Mechanize -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
