A simple way to capture STDOUT of a program into a scalar is with the qx or ` (backquote) operators. See perlop for more details.

my $command = "$FindBin::Bin\\lib\\lmutil lmstat -c $VALOR_LICENSE_FIL
+E";

my $result = qx/$command/;   # qx / /

# or

my $result = `$command`;     # backquote ` `
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