Bonjour, moines.

I want to assign strings with arbitrary characters to a variable.

First I tried double quotes: my $tweet = "RT @peteyorn: @Starbucks Thanks for putting the Break Up album for sale in your stores. \\ It's a great album! Nice work!"

That interpolates @peteyorn as an array.

I wisened up and tried single quotes. But the assignment doesn't terminate; Perl runs through the ending ' on later lines. Next I tried q{  TEXT  }:

my $tweet = q{RT @peteyorn: @Starbucks Thanks for putting the Break Up album for sale in your stores. \\ It's a great album! Nice work!}

That prints \\ as \.

Is there a way to really, truly, literally, verbatim assign what's enclosed, no questions asked and no thoughts thunk on perl's part?

Salutations distinguées.
taureau

de plus: my $tweet is just a particularly pesky example so I am coding against it. In the final application I will be piping a .csv through @ARGV, so will this problem just go away? (Some of the proposed solutions make me think so.)

In reply to verbatim, non-interpolated assignment by toro

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