import java.io.*;

class WriteFile {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        FileOutputStream foStream;
        PrintStream      pStream;

        try {
            foStream = new FileOutputStream("somefile.txt");
            pStream  = new PrintStream( foStream );
            pStream.println("This is written to a file");
            pStream.close();
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println ("Error writing to file "   e);
        }
    }
}

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open my $fh, ">", "somefile.txt"        or die "Can't open file: $!";
print $fh "This is written to a file\n" or die "Can't print to file: $!";