And I'd like to add that `perldoc perlop' says:

\Q          quote non-word characters till \E

Which means

$a = "\Qhello! there? How> what< now%";
die $a;
__END__
hello\!\ there\?\ How\>\ what\<\ now\% at - line 2.
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