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I'm certain that this isn't the best way, but it works:

foreach my $row (@AoA) {
  my @foo = break_up( $row );

  if( $foo[0] =~ /ARRAY/ ) {
    push @new_rows, @foo;
  } 
  else {
    push @new_rows, [ @foo ];
  }
}

print Dumper(\@new_rows);


sub break_up {
  my $row = shift;
  
  my $uses_newlines = 0;
  $uses_newlines++ if join( "", @$row ) =~ /\n/m;
  
  return @$row unless $uses_newlines;
  
  my @tmp;
  map { push @tmp, [ split /\n/ ] } @$row;
  
  my @row;
  for( my $i = 0; $i <= $#tmp; $i++ ) { 
    for( my $j = 0; $j <= $#tmp; $j++ ) {
      $row[$i][$j] = shift @{$tmp[$j]};
    }
  }
  
  return @row;
}
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giving an output of

$VAR1 = [
          [
            'single',
            'cell',
            'values'
          ],
          [
            'are',
            'really',
            'easy'
          ],
          [
            'but',
            'these',
            'aren\'t'
          ],
          [
            'multiline',
            'cells',
            'suck'
          ],
          [
            'stilton',
            'is',
            'great'
          ],
          [
            'back',
            'to',
            'life'
          ],
          [
            'back',
            'to',
            'reality',
            'with',
            'more',
            'cells'
          ]
        ];
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Interesting problem :) What's this for, if I can ask?

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In reply to Re^3: Splitting multiline scalars into different array entries by Tanalis
in thread Splitting multiline scalars into different array entries by davis

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