Does Perl has the equivalent of Python's multiline strings?

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Published on 2010-05-20T18:36:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 15:01 UTC
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In python you can have a multiline string like this using a docstring

foo = """line1
line2
line3"""

Is there something equivalent in Perl?

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