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

Question

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"?

Eugene Yarmash · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-26T12:54:03.263

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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.

edited Mar 26 '10 at 12:54

answered Mar 26 '10 at 12:31

Eugene Yarmash

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 26 '10 at 16:51

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

edited Mar 26 '10 at 16:51

brian d foy

answered Mar 26 '10 at 13:50

Fayland Lam

Why not answer a question with a question? – Sinan Ünür Mar 26 '10 at 14:50
This approach is ok. In my script, params to find_all_links() are created dynamically. I find it easier to just use these params, w/o any special cases – planetp Mar 26 '10 at 14:53

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