Oh, look, no code. But you didn't provide any code either, so I won't feel bad about it. :-)

Does this make more sense?

No, i still can't find any code in your post. What do you mean with "call" when you say "the script calls 'telnet ...'"?

Maybe you want to have a look at Expect, but I'm still just guessing.

Check it:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Example script, simmilar to the one I'm writing.. 

menu();
 
sub menu {
 
    my @menu = (
        [ 1 => 'Go' ],
    );
 
    my %call = (
        1 => \&go,
    );
 
   system("clear");
 
   print " ", "$_->[0]. $_->[1]\n" for @menu;
 
   print "Enter Selection:";
    chomp( my $answ = <STDIN> );
    my $sub = $call{$answ} or err();
 
    $sub->();
}
 
sub go {
    # This is where the telnet call gets made.
    system("telnet", "192.168.1.1"); # Currently spawns shell command
    # my $var = `telnet 192.168.1.1' # This will save output to $var
                                     # So I can edit the output.
    system("clear");
    menu();
}
 
sub err {
 
 
     print "Valid Selection Not Entered!\n";
 
     menu();
}
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I want the command to run with my modified output so the user can't see that it is telnetting to 192.168.1.1.

The output can be modified easily enough using s/192.16.1.1//, But I can't seem to figure out how to make the user see the output I desire, while it's executing the telnet command.

Well, the relevant code is:

system('telnet' , '192.168.1.1');
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As `perldoc -f system` tells you, system() forks off a child, waits for it to exit and then returns to your program. `perldoc perlop` tells us that qx// does the same, but catches the stdout of the command and returns it (exit status should be in $? anyways). So I can't see why you cannot use qx//...

my $var = `telnet 192.168.1.1`;
$var =~ s/192.168.1.1//;
print $var;
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update: oops, code tag typo, thanks Aristotle.

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This snippet:

open(PIPE, "telnet 192.168.1.1 |") or die $!;
while (<PIPE>) {
    $_ =~ s/192.168.1.1//;
    print $_;
 
}
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Does what I want, but it hangs after printing what it has, it doesn't continue to the login screen..