Everything is pretty straight forward when it comes to saving. Notice the file handle of the opened file "FILE" in the print statement of the text being saved. Here is a piece of sample code:

1. open (FILE, ">file.txt");
2. print FILE "Text To be saved\n";
3. close(FILE);

The above saving code works nice for one time jobs, but what if you want to add a few items to a already started list? The below code will show you how to append to a file:

1. open (FILE, ">>file.txt");
2. print FILE "Text To be saved\n";
3. close(FILE);

Take note of the ">>" located near the filename. This tells perl to open the file for input, and sets the output to append to the file. If you forget to put two <<'s you will write over the file.