my $outfile = q{mybatchfile.bat}; open( OUTPUT, q{>}, $outfile) or die qq{Can't open file $outfile : $!\n}; { print OUTPUT qq{\@echo off\n setlocal\n set PATHNAME=C:\\TEMP\\\%1_REGRESSION\n}, qq{set WAIT_TIME=240000\n set URL="http://myurl.biz"\n}, qq{set PWD="megapassword"\nset EMAIL_TO_STRING="bob@test.com"}; }