YAML::Syck:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use YAML::Syck;
use strict;
my $hashref = Load(<<'...');
---
title: This is my title
body: | 
 This is some text. Here's a newline:

 Yet more text.
...
    
print Dump($hashref);
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Outputs:

--- 
body: "This is some text. Here's a newline:\n\nYet more text.\n"
title: This is my title
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YAML::

#!/usr/bin/perl
use YAML;
use strict;
my $hashref = Load(<<'...');
---
title: This is my title
body: | 
 This is some text. Here's a newline:

 Yet more text.
...

print Dump($hashref);
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Outputs:

---
body: |
  This is some text. Here's a newline:
  
  Yet more text.
title: This is my title
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The output of YAML:: w.r.t to the body element is perfect, but YAML:: is a large module and not very efficient. I'd prefer to use YAML::Syck (or something else), but I need the body block formatted correctly (newlines unescaped, no quotation marks on either side, and starting with the bar (|) charcater) in the output because this block, which is potentially very lengthy, will be edited by humans. What options do I have here?