open( OUTPUT, ">", "some.file" ) or die "$!"; print OUTPUT rm3dHeader(); print OUTPUT rm3dData(); close OUTPUT; sub rm3dHeader { return "START_OF_FILE\n\nDATEFORMAT=YYYYMMDD\nDECIMALSEPARATOR=.\n"; } sub rm3dData { return "this is the data\n"; }