print [filehandle
]list
- Prints a string or a comma-separated list of strings to the specified filehandle. If no filehandle is given, the function prints to the currently open filehandle (STDOUT initially). The function returns
1
if successful,0
otherwise. filehandle may be a scalar variable name (unsubscripted), in which case the variable contains either the name of the actual filehandle or a reference to a filehandle object from one of the object-oriented filehandle packages. filehandle may also be a block that returns either kind of value:
print { $OK ? "STDOUT" : "STDERR" } "stuff\n"; print { $iohandle[$i] } "stuff\n";
If list is also omitted,$_
is printed. Note that, becauseprint
takes a list, anything in the list is evaluated in list context.