Hi! I'd like to run a system command (eg. host -v www.perlmonks.org) and get the output saved in a variable (for parsing etc.) AND the return code to test wether the command succeeded. This is how I do it to get the output in a variable: 
    my $command = "host -v www.perlmonks.org 2>&1 |";
    
    my $buff;

    if ( open( CMD, $command ) ) {
        while (<CMD>) {
            $buff .= "$_";
        }
        close(CMD);
    }
    
    # do some parsing with $buff etc.
    
    # print $buff
    print "Output:\n$buff";

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But this code doesn't give me the return code. To get only the return code I would use the following code: 
    my $RC = system("host","-v","www.perlmonks.org");
    $RC = $RC/256;
    print "RC:\n$RC";

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Now what I need is a combined version to get the return code and the output of the system command. Thanks for any advice

In reply to Return code and output of system command? by Anonymous Monk

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