Re^2: Misunderstood array behavior

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$VAR215 = 'MS02-19196-A6-DCIS';
$VAR216 = 'MS02-19196-A6-INVASIVE';
$VAR217 = 'MS01-9167-A7-DCIS';
';AR218 = 'MS06-1878-D2-DCIS
#### END ####
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This is why I always recommend $Data::Dumper::Useqq in such situations. Putting ~~quotes~~ some kind of delimiters around the variables you want to debug is of course a good thing, but if you're dealing with *lines* and have a problem, just use

use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; # shows all non-printable characters
print Dumper \@lines;
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(I also prefer to dump a reference, this avoids the big mess of many $VAR314159...)
edit: I even have a useful mapping for vim on my homenode which lets you debug with only very few keystrokes. (for emacs it looks a bit more complicated)

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Re^3: Misunderstood array behavior by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2008 at 02:14 UTC
Thank you. That is a valuable tip. Do you see any reason not to always use tchomp in place of chomp?	[reply]
Re^4: Misunderstood array behavior by JadeNB (Chaplain) on Sep 22, 2008 at 19:04 UTC
AZed did, when you asked the same question above.	[reply]