use strict; my $user_status_output = "C:/temp/user_status.$user.out"; my @output = ( "Hello world", "This is a test", "And some more text to go into the output file" ); open my $out, ">", $user_status_output die "Failed to create output file '$user_status_output': $!"; for my $line (@output) { print $out "$line\n"; }; close $out; print "Wrote output to '$user_status_output'\n";