The get() method requires arguments that specify a range of text to return from the widget. To get all the text, try my $take = $text1->get('1.0','end'); which says 'return all text from line 1 (the first line) character 0 (the first character) to the end'.

More details in perldoc Tk::Text.

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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