One small note... with only one '>' in the open line, the file will be overwritten each time this script runs. If you want to create a file to write to *or append to it if it exists already* be sure to use 2 '>>' instead.

Here's how I do it:

my $logfile = "/var/log/my.log"
my $text = "Log entry text!"

open(LOG, ">>$logfile") or die "Could not open file: $!";
    print LOG $text;
close LOG;
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