Well, you _can _ do this
$var=<<"END";
This is my variable's
multiline text,
complete tith tabs\t\t and extra newline\n\n, etc
END
four spaces in the opening and closing quote. I usually use qq{ }
depending on how much I care about whitespace formatting.
I know you've received other responses, but I'm doing a good bit of
this lately.
> sub sendEmail {
> open (Sendmail, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t ")
> or die "Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n";
> print Sendmail <<"EOF";
> From: Bugs
> To: amy
> Subject
