Hello All, I need help! I'm totally confused.
I'm trying to access and list the forms available on a page using WWW::Mechanize::Firefox
It is not behaving as I expected.

 
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics; 
use Data::Dumper;
use WWW::Mechanize::Firefox;


my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new(
    #env_proxy  => 1,
    #keep_alive => 1,
    #timeout    => 30,
    #autocheck  => 1,
    autoclose => 1, 
    js_JSON => 'native'
);
 
$mech->get("http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp");

    my $index; 
    my @forms = $mech->forms();
    my $form_obj ;

    while ( ($index, $form_obj) = each @forms) {
        print "$index : ", $form_obj , "\n";
        #print Dumper ($form_obj), "\n";
                }

exit;

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The $form_obj that is returned is a MozRepl::RemoteObject::Instance.
When I do a print Dumper on it, i can't see anything remotely useful. Everything appears to be describing the connection to Firefox, and i can't see anything to do with a form.
What I'm trying to do is print a list of forms available on a page and then allow the user to select the form in order to input some data.
I've tried googling for some examples of forms with Mechanize::Firefox and MozRepl::RemoteOjects but what i found was neither clear nor well explained. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

In reply to Completely Confused with Mechanize::Firefox Forms by help_3452

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