It looks like the elements in your array must already end in newlines (and have no newlines otherwise). That may be a valid assumption for your situation, but if you have more complicated data you want to recover, you may want to use something like Data::Dumper instead.

If all you're doing is printing an array to a file, you can do it without a for loop, which seems to be quite a bit faster on my laptop using this benchmark code: 

use Benchmark 'cmpthese';
my @a = map {"$_\n"} 1..1000000;
cmpthese(100, {
    forloop => sub {
        open FILE, ">file.out" or die "Can't open file: $!\n";
        print FILE $_ for @a;
        close FILE;
        },
    array   => sub {
        open FILE, ">file.out" or die "Can't open file: $!\n";
        print FILE @a;
        close FILE;
        }
});

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Results: 
Benchmark: timing 100 iterations of array, forloop...
     array: 28 wallclock secs (22.62 usr +  2.74 sys = 25.36 CPU) @  3
+.94/s (n=100)
   forloop: 69 wallclock secs (61.52 usr +  2.75 sys = 64.27 CPU) @  1
+.56/s (n=100)
          Rate forloop   array
forloop 1.56/s      --    -61%
array   3.94/s    153%      --

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-- Mike

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In reply to Re: Printing arrays to a file. by thelenm
in thread Printing arrays to a file. by Anonymous Monk

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