package IncludedTextFiles;

# declare as part of the module namespace
our @text;

# include file contents inside heredocs...
$text[1] = <<'END_OF_FILE';
contents of the first text file...
END_OF_FILE

$text[2] = <<'END_OF_FILE';
contents of the second text file...
END_OF_FILE;

$text[3] = <<'END_OF_FILE';
contents of the third text file...
END_OF_FILE;

##</code><code>##

use IncludedTextFiles;
print "First text file was ", length($text[1]), "bytes!";