Esteemed Monks,

The LinkedIn API is returning an error Illegal character VCHAR=( and I am trying to resolve where the bracket is coming from as no brackets appear in the request headers or JSON body content. However, $request is ultimately passed to LWP::UserAgent->request. So I have tried: 

print Dumper $request;

$VAR1 = 'HTTP::Request=HASH(0x1c23960)
';

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So I am wondering if this is where the bracket is coming from. Unlikely, but it has to be coming from somewhere...

Seeing as Dumper is giving me a hash, I tried to dereference it like this: 

print Dumper %$request;

$VAR1 = '4/8
';

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I do not understand this.
What does 4/8 mean? I cannot find any clues in the Data::Dumper documentation but I am struggling to understand it properly.

Any advice on how I interpret 4/8 or how I can further work out where the bracket is coming from that is generating the error from the LinkedIn API?

In reply to Data::Dumper output by Bod

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