At the risk of taking too simplistic a view of your requirement, you can redirect the output of the whole perl program to log.txt and if desired STDERR to errlog.txt from the shell level using:

myprog.pl > log.txt 2> errlog.txt
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or if ordinary and error output should be merged but appear in correct historic order...

myprog.pl > log.txt 2>&1
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