ok, i want to make this:

$_ = <font face="arial, helvetica, verdana">
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into this:

$_ = <font face=arial,helvetica,verdana>
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You want to make your HTML illegal? I don't understand. You need to quote arguments that aren't alphanumerics. Please don't break your HTML.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker