Quote-like operators ( http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators ) may be helpful:

C:\>perl -E "use strict; use warnings; my $str=q(This isn't really an 
+answer for URLs like 'http:\\\\www.perlmonks.org!'); say $str;"
This isn't really an answer for URLs like 'http:\\www.perlmonks.org!'
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... or maybe this node is an answer, of sorts. Whadda'ya tink?