I am developing an application that replaces character strings in a Word document.
The code below does this as I need. The replacement text is set up in the lines $doll_str{xx<n>} = replacement string.
However, I would like the replacement string to include none normal alpha/numeric characters such as
those found in the Windings style and in particular the ‘tick’.
More in hope than expectation I have tried copying the tick mark from a Word document into Perl but this gave just a double quote.
How can this be done?
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';

# set $filepath to the full path to the directory where the file to be
+ changed, test.doc, is stored

my $filepath = 'C:/tmp';

my $oldfile = $filepath . '/test.doc';
my $newfile = $filepath . '/test1.doc';

my ($oldtext, $newtext); 

my (%doll_str, $doll_item, $search_res, $replace_res, $exec_res);

$doll_str{xx1} = 'fred 1';
$doll_str{xx2} = 'orange 2';
$doll_str{xx3} = 'green 3';
$doll_str{xx4} = 'blue 4';
$doll_str{xx5} = 'black 5';


my $word = Win32::OLE-> GetActiveObject('Word.Application')
    || Win32::OLE-> new('Word.Application','Quit');

my $doc = $word-> Documents->Open("$oldfile");

# is application visible 0=no  1=yes
$word-> {visible} = 0;

my $search =  $doc-> Content->Find;
my $replace = $search-> Replacement;

$search-> {Text} = $oldtext;
$replace-> {Text} = $newtext;
$search-> Execute({Replace => wdReplaceAll});

foreach $doll_item (sort {$a cmp $b} keys %doll_str) {


    $search-> {Text} = $doll_item;
    $replace-> {Text} = $doll_str{$doll_item};

    $exec_res = $search-> Execute({Replace => wdReplaceAll});

    print "item <$doll_item> exec <$exec_res>/n";

}

# save word file
$word-> ActiveDocument->SaveAs($newfile);

# close word file
$doc-> Close();
$word-> Quit();

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