Perl Programming/Keywords/say

The say keyword

say is similar to print, but adds automatically a newline character. Using a real FILEHANDLE like FH instead of an indirect one like $fh without a LIST results in printing the contents of $_ to the file.

To use this command, a use 5.10 should be added.

Syntax

 say FILEHANDLE LIST  say FILEHANDLE  say LIST  say 

Examples

The code

$a = "I am waiting for you! "; $b = "You are late again. "; print $a; print $b; say $a; say $b; 

returns

I am waiting for you! You are late again. I am waiting for you! You are late again. 

See also

• print
• printf
• sprintf