Thank you for the explanation. It turns out I did find a work-around which is
exactly what you mentioned. The only difference is instead of specifying the
file name twice, I was able to get it only once and use the 'file' option to
:results:
#+BEGIN_SRC perl :results output file :exports resu
Hi David,
The way you have this code set up, perl will print a string to its
stdout. Emacs will read that string into a buffer, then write it to a
file.
It would be simpler to write the file directly from perl. Note that
this will require specifying the file name twice (in the :file header
and
