How do I align the text in a print statement

I assume you mean wrap, not align. It depends on where you want the wrapping to happen:

• Just visually, in the editor? Try turning on "line wrap"/"word wrap" (don't have a copy of Padre handy here so I can't tell you exactly which menu it's under)

• In the source file? There are several techniques, the simplest is probably using the . (dot) concatenation operator:

  print "How do I align this statement so "
       ."that it does not look like a run on "
       ."sentence and take up the whole screen? \n";
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  There are also modules to help you with formatting your Perl source, in particular perltidy, although that won't break up long strings like that for you.

• On output? Store the text in a variable and then use a module like the core module Text::Wrap (I see 1nickt has already pointed this out).