Please see also Capture::Tiny. Very handy.

Regards, Karl

G'day tsvi.tenebaum,

I think you'll find most of what you need in the open documentation. In particular, look for:

"Here is a script that saves, redirects, and restores STDOUT and STDERR using various methods: ..."

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $output = `whoami 2>&1`;
name();

sub name {
     print "You are $output";
}
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