Doesn't select command selects the file and print the contents?

I used it as below in my code before: 

my $in = $ARGV[0];
my $x  = $ARGV[1];
my $y  = $ARGV[2];

open IN   , "<$in" or die $!;
open X, ">$x" or die $!; 
open Y, ">$y" or die $!;

while (<IN>) {
    if (/^>/) {
        if (/infor_present:/) {
            select X;
        }
        else{
            select Y;
        }
    }
    print;
}

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In the above code, there is a "print" statement after it comes out of loop. So in order to print the contents in multiple files, how can we use print in this manner?

Also, I tried making a hash for the Sample.fa files with header as key and seq as values. But since I am reading multiple files, that approach is not working (as I run out of memory!). Kindly help.

Thanks!

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