I was going to reply with the special file "-" (as documented in perlopentut), but I found an inconsistency between 2-arg and 3-arg open. If I do this 
open(OUTPUT, '>-') or die;
print OUTPUT "foo\n";

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I get "foo\n" on standard out. However, if I use 3-arg open like so: 
open(OUTPUT, ">", '-')
print "foo\n";

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I get the output directed to a file called '-'. This seems like it might be a bug...can anyone point me to somewhere in the docs where this is documented behavior?

thor

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Be your own disciple, fan the sparks of will
For all of us waiting, your kingdom will come

In reply to Re: Swiching between output to file and STDOUT by thor
in thread Switching between output to file and STDOUT by loris

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