I was just showing a non-native english speaking colleague the quote function in perl.

my $x = q(Some string of stuff keeping $signs in tact);

And I mentioned that you could change the parens to curly braces or a slew of other characters and he asked me what the name of the character that follows the q is. My first instinct was to say delimiter but that's not quite right because a delimiter repeats and parens and curly braces close with the opposing brace or paren. 

my $x = q{Test};
my $x = q+Test+;
my $x = q(Test);
my $x = q^Test^;
...

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So. Does the name of the character after the q have a specific name? As in "You can change the ____ from a parenthesis to a plus sign."

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In reply to The name of the character by KurtSchwind

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