How can Perl's print add a newline by default?

perl printing newline
Mike picture Mike · May 24, 2010 · Viewed 135.2k times · Source

In Perl most of my print statements take the form

print "hello." . "\n";

Is there a nice way to avoid keeping all the pesky "\n"s lying around?

I know I could make a new function such as myprint that automatically appends \n, but it would be nice if I could override the existing print.

Answer

Josh Kelley picture Josh Kelley · May 24, 2010

Perl 6 has the say function that automatically appends \n.

You can also use say in Perl 5.10 or 5.12 if you add

use feature qw(say);

to the beginning of your program. Or you can use Modern::Perl to get this and other features.

See perldoc feature for more details.

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