Hand him a blank page and tell him that this is a Perl solution that lacks character. :-)

The discussion at Quine Whine should give you pointers on writing a few more of your own. In particular the link to here should make you understand that any Turing complete language has quines, therefore this is not a test of Perl, but merely of whether you could figure out how to do it. (When you know the tricks, they really aren't that hard.)