my $page1 = <<http://url/website.com/thing?end_date=$END_DATE&start_da
+te=$START_DATE&type=csv;
512.45,c100
6734, c200
5653.2, c300
PG1CSV

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What you are (incorrectly) attempting is a here document. The proper form (I'm making some assumptions about just exactly what you want) is: 

my $page1 = <<PG1CSV;
http://url/website.com/thing?end_date=$END_DATE&start_date=$START_DATE
+&type=csv;
512.45,c100
6734, c200
5653.2, c300
PG1CSV

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See also the discussion of here-docs in Quote and Quote-like Operators and Quote-Like Operators, both in perlop.

Update: Do you want semicolon at the end of the
    http://url/website.com/thing?end_date...=csv;
string | sub-string?

Update 2: The here-doc with the label  PG2CSV is also incorrect, and in the same way.

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In reply to Re^5: parsing CSV by AnomalousMonk
in thread parsing CSV by younggrasshopper13

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