Redirecting to STOUT at the commandline is definitely the way to go. You may use "print STDOUT $foo" and "print STDERR $bar" to show stuff on the screen and redirect to a file. 
#!/usr/bin/env perl
print STDOUT "this goes gets redirected";
print STDERR "this doesn't";

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Note that STDERR may be redirected into STDOUT or into its own file using various methods provided by the shell.

I personally like Unix's "everything is a filter" approach where you can built the utilites so that they are made to be piped together. This includes accepting STDIN using diamond operator, "<>". Check out "Data Munging with Perl". It covers this approach very well.

In reply to Re: How to print STDOUT to a file by perlfan
in thread How to print STDOUT to a file by Anonymous Monk

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