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planetp
planetp

Reputation: 16085

How can I extract all links from the page excluding one using Perl's WWW::Mechanize?

I'm trying to use WWW::Mechanize to extract some links from the HTML page using find_all_links() method. It supports matching on these criterias:

How can I extract all links except one that has text "xyz"?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 350

Answers (2)

Fayland Lam
Fayland Lam

Reputation: 1016

Why not get all links then use 'grep' to skip those you don't need?

Upvotes: 1

Eugene Yarmash
Eugene Yarmash

Reputation: 149823

You can use the 'text_regex' criteria:

$mech->find_all_links(text_regex => qr/^(?!xyz$).*$/);

See perldoc perlre for more on negative look-ahead assertion.

Upvotes: 6

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