Different Between "Print" and "Print STDERR"

Hi, COuld you explain to me with example what is the different between "Print" and "Print STDERR".When to use "Print STDERR"?Wny use "Print STDERR" instead of "PRINT" in perl.

By default, Perl's 'print' function will print to Standard Output (STDOUT). If you want to print to any other filehandle (including Standard Error (STDERR)), you have to specify it when you call 'print'. Incidentally, the function is called 'print', not 'Print'. Perl is case sensitive.

To read about the differences between STDOUT and STDERR, have a look here.

Personally, I prefer to use the warn function instead of the print function when I want to send output to STDERR.

perldoc -f warn

Yes, or possibly the die function, if the error should be considered to be fatal.

Or, if we really want to follow the current best practices, use the carp, croak, cluck, and confess functions from the Carp module.

use Carp;

Thx for you guys information.

Yes, I thought about Carp when I wrote the previous message.

There is one thing I really dislike about this module, though: whoever wrote it should have chosen function names that make sense to non native English speakers.

Assuming I am new to Perl, if I see "warn" or "die" in a program I can pretty well guess what it does. But carp, cluck or even croak, I just can't guess.

I completely agree. I often need to look them up because I keep forgetting which one does what I need at any given point.