You could also do this... 
select(FILE);
print $text;
print "blah blah blah\n";

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And so on... all prints would go to FILE

Update:
Snowrider - This is assuming you have multiple files open and are printing to them as you go... and as I know the basic tasks you will have to perform as you come up to speed with Perl... this might be useful to you.

i.e.,

open DRILL_FILE, ">$drill_file";
open ROUT_FILE, ">$rout_file";
select(DRILL_FILE);
print "stuff...\n";
select(ROUT_FILE);
print "other stuff...\n";

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Prost,
Moe

In reply to Re: Re: is this correct by el-moe
in thread is this correct by snowrider

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