IMO, it seems likely that "funny characters" means you're dealing (or more precisely, 'not dealing') with a character-set issue -- "There are Seven character encoding schemes in Unicode: UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32 (UCS-4), UTF-32BE (UCS-4BE) and UTF-32LE ...."

See perldoc -f encode. The module Encode::Guess may be helpful.


Questions containing the words "doesn't work" (or their moral equivalent) will usually get a downvote from me unless accompanied by:
  1. code
  2. verbatim error and/or warning messages
  3. a coherent explanation of what "doesn't work actually means.

In reply to Re: SNMP get request error by ww
in thread ERROR: The OBJECT IDENTIFIER value "ARRAY(0x1b80628)" is expected in dotted decimal notation. by thanos1983

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