Re: How do I write to a file?

[revdiablo]

The 3-arg form of open is fairly useful to prevent problems with filenames "tricking" perl, and other nasty surprises:

open FH, ">", $outfile or die "Error writing '$outfile': $!\n";
print FH $output;
close FH;

Also useful are lexical filehandles:

open my $filehandle, ">", $outfile or die "Error writing '$outfile': $
+!\n";
print $filehandle $output;
close $filehandle;