I agree with the other comment that heredocs are not ugly, and are often the best way of including multi-line strings in your code (such as big chunks of SQL).

It might be worth mentioning how heredocs can be stacked:

use Test::More;
use Example::HTML::Reformatter qw/reformat/;

is(reformat(<<'IN'), <<'OUT', 'HTML was reformatted');
<html><head
  ><title>Foo</title><body></html>
IN
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Foo</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>
OUT

done_testing(1);

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Another thing worth mentioning might be how when bracketting characters are used to quote strings, they must balance.

my $str = q{Foo{the following curly does not end the quote}but the nex
+t one does};

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In reply to Re: Quote and Quote-like Operators by tobyink
in thread Quote and Quote-like Operators by Xiong

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