<grovel>Hi wonderful smart people </end grovel>

Hopefully this makes sense
I am processing an afp file
I want to see the value of a certain string so I can use

printf "Triplet_Values = <hex: %*v2.2X>\n", ' ', $data;
The problem is this writes it to stdout

What I want to do is assign it to a variable and write that variable to a log file, or pass that variable back to the calling routine
eg something like

my $variable=printf "--INSIDE Get_Triplet_Values = <hex: %*v2.2X>\n", 
+' ', $data;
print LOG $variable
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But all the apostrophes are making it beyond my capabilities.

Any help gratefully received.