This gives the following correct output:

$VAR1 = ['This is a test.','This is a multiline test.']

Not on my perl. Here it gives:

$VAR1 = ['This is a test.
','
This is a multiline
test.
'];

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As it's hard to know from that what you actually want, here's an SSCCE which preserves the multi-line nature of the second string but removes the trailling newlines. You can amend it to suit your actual requirements.

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More tests => 1;

my @data;
my @want = ('This is a test.', "This is a multiline\ntest.");

{
    local $/ = "\nXXX\n";
    chomp (@data = <DATA>);
}

is_deeply (\@data, \@want);

__DATA__
This is a test.
XXX
This is a multiline
test.
XXX

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In reply to Re: breaking up a file by delimiter by hippo
in thread breaking up a file by delimiter by navalned

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