Ignoring escape characters in perl -

my %result = "\\path\tfolder\file.txt"; 

how can ignore \t escape sequence without prepending '\'. there like:

my %result = r"\\path\tfolder\file.txt"; 

the above doesn't work.

single quotes process 2 escape sequences: \\ , \', have double leading double-backslash not others:

my $result = '\\\\server\toppath\files'; 

to want, use here-document @ cost of syntactic bulk.

chomp(my $result = <<'eopath'); \\server\toppath\files eopath 

note change of sigil % $ because string scalar, , hashes associations.