To expand on dws's answer, the line open( OUT, ">out.txt" ) creates a filehandle called OUT that refers to the write-only access to out.txt.

Normally, the print command will use STDOUT as the default file handle. Hence, the following two lines will typically do the same thing:

print "Hello, World!\n" ;
print STDOUT "Hello, World!\n" ;
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To print to a file instead of STDOUT, simply change the filehandle passed to the print statement.

print FILE "Hello, World!\n" ;
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Also, clean up behind yourself; ie. don't forget to close your filehandle when you're done (it probably won't break your program if you don't, but it's good practice.)

close FILE ;
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For more info, see the docs on open and print.

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