"To capture output from a command, use backticks or qx// instead."
Update: I seem to have misread the question, the way I read it would have been a simple split operation an any output. Being ESL, it didn't sink in that the poster wanted to split up STDERR and STDOUT. My mistake, thanks fot the spanking :)
"Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!