in reply to verbatim, non-interpolated assignment
That interpolates @peteyorn as an array.
In which version of Perl? I get an error with 5.14 as I expect, because the single-quote in It's looks like the end of string quote marker.
Is there a way to really, truly, literally, verbatim assign what's enclosed, no questions asked and no thoughts thunk on perl's part?
No. That's a semi-predicate problem and is unsolveable. You can read text via IO though.
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