Yes, it certainly does give me what I need. Thanks, John!

Some of the JavaScript seems to be using key/value specifications that aren't valid JSON because the keys aren't quoted strings, e.g. 

var renderer = new US.Opportunity.OpportunityRenderViewModel({

            opportunity: opportunity,

            currentJobBoardId: "6162c253-9d81-da08-c252-d43d2fcb8345",

            isViewingInternal: false

        });

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... so I changed the regular expression to be 
m/\((\{".*?\})\)/gms

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(throwing in a leading quotation mark, in order to find only JSON that has a quoted initial key).

I also played with the possibility that the HTML page would contain more than one block of JSON, and changed your code to be 

my ( $json, $ref );
for ( $scrape =~ m/\((\{".*?\})\)/gms ) {
    $json = $1;
    $ref = decode_json $json;
    print Dumper $ref;
}

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...so as to find and print for me each of multiple JSON blocks (not shown here). Love it!

In reply to Re^2: Quick 'n dirty extraction of JSON from an HTML page by davebaker
in thread Quick 'n dirty extraction of JSON from an HTML page by davebaker

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