a backtick?? Oh no! I hate ticks, burn it off, burn it off!!
And as for webadept's answer, that is also one of my favorites. I generally use something like
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
print qq|Content-type: text/html\n
<html>
<head>
<title>Yeah Yeah</title>
</head>
<!-- More HTML stuff here, etc... -->
Oh looky here, a whatever this character is called \|
|;
As long as you backslash any |'s in the text you'll be fine (and I don't think your output contains many if any of these...)
If you are outputting strings that contain a lot of strange characters, I'd definitely suggest use heredocs, especially if you are outputting very long HTML documents. For example:
print <<'YayIAmDone';
look at this text. lots of non-alphanumeric characters in this print s
+tatement! 8)^404`76`5`65^%!^%^@éA¿º¿ªÑñç¦ and we don't even have to l
+ook for anything to backslash! !$#!#!1~!````~!~!~21&$3(&6(*7_*(+|}|]{
+]{]":':?,,?<
YayIAmDone
exit;
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