in reply to Can qw() span lines?

use vars split(' ', <<'END'); $var1 $var2 $var3 $var4 $var5 $var6 $var7 $var8 $var9 $var0 END
That's a joke, by the way.

As a note, maybe what you want to do is:
our ($var1, $var2, $var3, ...);
This 'use vars' stuff is for older Perl 5 code.