I was completely overthinking it - thanks for clarifying.

Hi,

There is a list for overthinking avoidance :)

Basic debugging checklist

perl -MO=Deparse -
 $_ = qq~"$_"~;
__END__
$_ = qq["$_"];
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ppi_dumper is also great at hints

$ ppi_dumper input_file
PPI::Document
  PPI::Statement
    PPI::Token::Magic   '$_'
    PPI::Token::Whitespace      ' '
    PPI::Token::Operator        '='
    PPI::Token::Whitespace      ' '
    PPI::Token::Quote::Interpolate      'qq~"$_"~'
    PPI::Token::Structure       ';'
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