Question

I am creating a script that logs into a web form in Perl using the mechanize module, and I’m getting the error:

syntax error at /home/arty/scripts/gmail_pw_chngr.pl line 18, near "button"
Execution of /home/arty/scripts/gmail_pw_chngr.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

Code

    use WWW::Mechanize;
    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();

    my $url = "https://accounts.google.com/Login";

    $mech->get($url);

    $result = $mech->submit_form(
        form_name => 'gaia_loginform', # Name of the form
        #Instead of form name you can specify
        #form_number => 1
        fields       =>
        {
            Email  => '[e-mail]', # Name of the input field and value
            Passwd => 'password',
        }
        button    => 'signIn' # Name of the submit button
    );
    print $result->content();

Above is the code, all the values from the input are the name, but it always errors on the same line.

Answer 1

The error in question is the missing comma before button.