Thank you for the tip re: strict! Escaping - that's definitely a sore point. I feel like I get tripped up by embedded double quotes way too often - does perl have a good way to handle them?
Customary Generic Meaning Interpolates
'' q{} Literal no
"" qq{} Literal yes
where {} can be any bracket pair.
my $string1 = q<a single quote '>;
my $string2 = qq<a double quote ">;