in reply to inserting a formatted text file into a perl script.
If the help pertains to the script then you might consider putting the help information into the script as POD and use Getopt::Long and/or Pod::Usage to do the heavy lifting for you. See the sample code in the Getopt::Long documentation to get started.
DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
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