Re^3: How to print called program to stdout

> because system() doesn't output

It does. system prints to STDOUT, you just can't access its output from the calling Perl program:

$ perl -we 'system "date"'
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($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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Re^4: How to print called program to stdout by pryrt (Abbot) on Mar 19, 2016 at 23:57 UTC
oops, you're right (struck out) What I really should have been pointing out is that without the print statement, `` or `qx//` wouldn't output anything.	[reply] [d/l] [select]