G'day carlriz,

That's actually an assignment:

my $begin =
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With a heredoc:

          <<'THEEND';
    ...
THEEND
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For more details, see "perlop: Quote-Like Operators". Scroll down to <<EOF for heredoc specifics. You'll find additional, relevant information in the "Gory details of parsing quoted constructs" section, just after that.