Every once in a while I have to generate a bunch of similar looking files. Today I created a bunch of ini files, for a hack involving another script, with 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @names = qw(file1 file2);

for my $name (@names) {
    open OUTPUT, "> $name.ini";
    print OUTPUT "[main]\n";
    print OUTPUT "left_hand_side=$name.html\n";
    print OUTPUT "right_hand_side=$name.php\n";
    print OUTPUT 'file_regex_pattern=\.php$' . "\n";
    print OUTPUT 'dir_regex_pattern=(?!^svn$)';
    close OUTPUT;
}

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Works fine, but I don't like it. I don't like sometimes using " and sometimes ', I don't like all those prints, I just... yuck. Can someone point me towards a better way of solving this type of problem? I know about the template toolkit, and am considering learning that and using it as a solution. Any other ways for quicky throwaway scripts like this?

In reply to Is there a better way to automate file creation? by tphyahoo

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