And, of course, plain, old single-quoted strings can contain embedded newlines, they just won't interpolate  \n newline escape sequences.

use warnings;
use strict;

my $string =
'this
string
has
five
newlines
';

print $string;
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Output:

>perl t_sq_newlines_1.pl
this
string
has
five
newlines
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