I don't see a way to use Dumper and have that the be cyrillic, because that's what I want to see.

Yes, Data::Dumper and Data::Dump will output escapes instead of Unicode characters. But the reason I asked for output from one of those modules (twice) is because it provides others, like myself, the best information to help debug your code. The debug output you showed does not really allow differentiating between undef, space characters, or empty strings, and also I can't really help you with the Can't use string as an ARRAY ref error because I'd have to guess which data element it's coming from - it's somewhere in @AoA, but I can't see the actual data structure, nor can I run your code on my end to reproduce the error, because of the missing data. The aforementioned modules will output actual valid Perl syntax, which means it can just be copied and pasted into a Perl script to create a runnable example (or you can just provide a runnable example to begin with).

For debug output for yourself, you could use Data::Printer, as I showed here, as it will print Unicode characters, but if you want others to help debug, please give them the information they ask for. I also suggest you read through Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example.

use Data::Dump;
dd \@AoA;
# - or -
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Useqq=1;
print Dumper(\@AoA);

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In reply to Re^7: locating ultima thule by haukex
in thread locating ultima thule by Aldebaran

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