Loading Scalar Vars with Text - Readability

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Hi, 
   Adding Perl to the list of languages... and came across a question of
loading vars with very long strings...

   Actually I am modifiying a prior employee's code and want to make it
more readable.

currently the code is such:
my $longlist = "Clause1|Clause2|Clause3|Clause4|...|ClauseN";

I would like to know why I can't make this more readable?  Is it because
newline characters would be added to the mix?  I would like to do
something like this:

my $longlist = "Clause1|
                Clause2|
                Clause3|
                Clause4|
                ...|
                ClauseN";

Please copy me directly on your response.  T

Thanks,
Art Bahrs
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