I will indeed look closer at your code and post an update later with results and questions if new ones arise. Thanks for your help!

Update: I figured out the problem, it turns out the site I have been using is not HTML based despite the strong appearance of it being HTML based. I confirmed this by using my same script as written straight with perlmonks here. It returned the content I would expect from perlmonks, but the other site I have been using does not. I have emailed the site administrator to confirm this hypothesis, as well as to see if they have an alternative to what I am originally trying to do. Thank you for the help, it was much appreciated.

In reply to Re^8: Help Getting WWW::Mechanize Link reference array to output to STD_OUT. by tfredett
in thread Help Getting WWW::Mechanize Link reference array to output to STD_OUT. by tfredett

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