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Saving weird characters

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Neoport

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Hi,
I have been trying to solve this problem.

I need to save the character &quot;<&quot; into a string.
$name = &quot;\<&quot;;

When I wrote the code above, Perl complaint, and I have no idea how to save the escape character into a string.

Thanks
 
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$name = &quot;\\<&quot;;
Mike
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