Have you ever had a problem where you kinda knew what was going wrong ... I have that problem. I am using IO::Scalar and when I tie stdout like so: 
    my $str;
     my $io = tie *STDOUT, 'IO::Scalar', \$str;
        print_monks();
    undef $io;
    untie *STDOUT;
       
        # $str now contains the output of the print_monks() function.

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Everything works as expected, as long as the print_monks() function is in the same package. When I use a module that exports a function and then try to capture the output of that function in the same code as above, things go haywire. So this doesn't work: 
use Some::Module qw(print_blah);

    my $str;
     my $io = tie *STDOUT, 'IO::Scalar', \$str;
        print_blah();    
    undef $io;
    untie *STDOUT;
        
        # print_blah() prints to stdout.

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How can I get the output into $str in such a case? Thanks.

In reply to tie stdout with IO::Scalar by jacques

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