This should be what you're intending:

if (open($fh, ">", $file))
{
     $query->save($fh);
     close($fh);
}
else
{
     # Die? Complain?
}
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The documentation indicates that any filehandle is valid. Since passing older-style (pre-5.6?) filehandles is tricky, using the newer method is easier. That's $fh instead of FH