I find myself in need of a way of redirecting/capturing STDOUT, but from within and program instead of from the command line.

In detail, here is the problem. We use a home grown templating system in which the template holds some perl and lots of html, with a bunch of $href->{somekey} entries.
That template is slurped up, and then eval'ed (with $href having been created/filled before the slurp and eval).

The slurped template can be edited by non-programmers, so for safety we 'use Safe'. Here is the code so far: 
  my $code;
  my $compartment = new Safe; 
  $compartment->share('$href');
  $code = $compartment->reval($$file);
  if ($@) {
    _sAbort( $r, "Restricted eval failed! Unable to compile format of 
+type $type:", $@ );
    return DONE;
  }

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The real problem now comes up. ANY use/call of $code->($href) will activate the print statements inside the slurped file. This was fine with the following: 
$r->send_http_header('text/html');
$code->($href);
return DONE;

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But now I am trying to instead grab the output of $code and stick it as text into an email. (You guessed it - I'm trying to email generated web pages - HTML email, yuck!).

Surfing through the various books, I find no simple way to redirect STDOUT to a variable for capture. The following code failed miserably: 
my $open_err;
my $data;
open(OUTPUT, "$code->($href) |") or $open_err = $!; 
if ($open_err) {
    _sAbort($r,"Cannot open a pipe",$!);
    return DONE;
}
local $/ = undef;
$data = <OUTPUT>;
close(OUTPUT);

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Any of you geniouses know offhand how I can get this darned HTML output from the code ref $code into a simple variable so i can give it to MIME::Lite as data? Much gracious bowing and licking of boots are offered to the one who can solve this for me!

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In reply to Redirecting STDOUT by tame1

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