Programming Perl, 4th Edition

say

say FILEHANDLE LIST
say FILEHANDLE
say LIST
say

Just like print, but implicitly appends a newline. say LIST is simply an abbreviation for { local $\ = "\n"; print LIST }. To use FILEHANDLE without a LIST to print the contents of $_ to it, you must use a real filehandle like FH, not an indirect one like $fh.

This keyword is available only when the “say” feature is enabled; see the section feature in Chapter 29.