How do I print a % (percentage sign)?

gag has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am writing a script to make multiple HTML files. Its mostly the same code so I'm using a print to End of Text method. Unfortunately the HTML contains a % character which is interepreted as a hash, I believe, but \% is not escaping it as hoped.
An example portion of the code looks like this:

printf TEMP <<"_ENDOFTEXT_";
#other stuff
<TABLE HEIGHT="100\%" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100\%" BO
+RDER="0">
#more stuff
_ENDOFTEXT_
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When compiled, it reports:
Invalid conversion in printf: "%"" at...
Am I doing something frightfully stupid?

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Re: How do I print a % (percentage sign)? by KM (Priest) on Dec 06, 2000 at 18:52 UTC
Have you tried `%` [download] to make your %?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Answer: How do I print a % (percentage sign)? by gag (Initiate) on Dec 07, 2000 at 16:15 UTC
I have, thank you, but now i'm ashamed to admit that my fault is not in the escaping, rather it is in using a `printf` statement instead of just plain old `print`. This isn't even a question about regular expressions. Thanks for helping though.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How do I print a % (percentage sign)? by vroom (His Eminence) on Dec 06, 2000 at 11:09 UTC
blah Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]