Hello, is there a any other way to escape the $ as a decoded JSON character?

Google in their infinite wisdom decided to use the $ as part of value names:

(edited)

      "updated":{
         "$t":"2019-07-19T20:04:56.046Z"

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But DataDumper shows the current time:

   $VAR1 = {
          'version' => '1.0',
          'feed' => {
                      'xmlns' => 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom',
                      'updated' => {
                                     '$t' => '2020-10-16T19:55:33.294Z
+'
                                   },
                      'gs$rowCount' => {
                                         '$t' => '1000'

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I am trying to get the Feed Updated value, this gives me the current time, and not the time value of 2019-07-19 in this case:

$updated    = $decoded_json->{feed}->{updated}->{'$t'};

This:

$updated    = $decoded_json->{feed}->{updated}->{'\$t'};

Gives me: Use of uninitialized value $updated in concatenation (.) or string

Normally I just escape the special character, but it seems to be interpreting it into something different, and I am not sure why? I don't usually have characters in JSON that need to be escaped like this.

Everything else is working fine, except this one line. Am I missing something that I just haven't stumbled upon before? Any help would be appreciated as always.

Thank you.

In reply to Escape $ in JSON::XS decoded by johnfl68

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