A syslog message is typically only one line (single CR) long. If a message needs to span multiple lines to avoid having a 500+ character line width, it's broken into separate messages.

The easy way to do this with what you have is:

my @msgs = ( "======== Start =========",
             $stuff,
             $morestuff,
             "======== End ==========" );
openlog( 'status', 'ndelay', 'daemon' );
map { syslog( 'warning', '%s', $_ ) } @msgs;
closelog();
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