print <<END;
This is some long winded window
text that could appear somewhere
and using this heredoc allows me to
type it in without having to double quote it
or put in "." concatenations or "\\n" characters
as this will be printed verbatim just like it is
except note that I had to double escape the newline!
Otherwise it would be a "newline"!
END

##</code><code>##

while (<DATA>)
{
   chomp;   #just to show you what the \n is there 
            #just like from a file..
   print "$_\n";
}
__DATA__
thing1
thing2
thing3