in reply to inserting a formatted text file into a perl script.

In what way doesn't it work for you? What gets printed? Note that if you can reproduce your problem with a short example we are much more inclined to help than if you present us with a huge example. For example, the following works for me:

print <<"EOF"; Possible Starting Arguments for ldapadmin: EOF

Prints:

Possible Starting Arguments for ldapadmin:

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