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