[Omaha.pm] WWW::Mechanize & http://screen.yahoo.com/stocks.html

[Jay Hannah]

Last meeting we talked about Dean's attempt to spider Yahoo. It wasn't 
quite working.

I figured it out. Here's the solution:

    http://jays.net/tmp/j.pl.txt
    (Program and output)

I believe the problem was this:

    $agent->follow_link(text => "Next 20", n => 240)

That syntax asks WWW::Mechanize to follow the 240th link labelled "Next 
20". That's not right, of course. There's only one link labelled "Next 
20". And the link actually is /Next \d\d/, so I changed the syntax to 
this:

    $agent->follow_link(text_regex => qr/Next \d\d/)

Looks like it's working. Pretty slick.

Enjoy!

j