First things first.
Great site and great people.
This is my first post ever, so I want to thank everybody for the help I got from this site since now.

Then the question:

let us suppose the following.

#!usr/bin/perl

print <<HTMLCODE;
ZXCZXC
zxcZXCzx
zxczxczxc
zxczxczxzx
HTMLCODE

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Many (if not all :p) of you here know that the code outputs the text rows to STDOUT, wherever it is redirected.

My NECESSITY :) is to be able to assign the print<<HTMLCODE to a VARIABLE, kind of

#!usr/bin/perl

$STDOUT_OVERRIDE_VARIABLE= print <<HTMLCODE;
ZXCZXC
zxcZXCzx
zxczxczxc
zxczxczxzx
HTMLCODE

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mumble mumble... pity it doesn't work...

please someone help me! I just need a workaround, not an alternative, since I know how to, for example, read from a file or similar, but I just want to assign the printing to a variable!
Is there any way to assign STDOUT TO SOMETHING? like
$variable = STDOUT so that the STDOUT printing gets stored into the variable?

Thanks in advance.

In reply to print htmlcode issue by Olecram

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