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:

• text
• text_regex
• url
• url_regex
• url_abs
• url_abs_regex
  ...

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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