I have the following code, I am trying to get the number of jobs returned to me in $server_num_jobs. But $server_num_jobs keeps returning 1. I have tried several variations on the code such as $server_num_jobs=`/usr/bin/lpstat -h $server -W not-completed |wc -l`; amongst others. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Data::Dumper;

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my @cups_num_jobs_cmd=("/usr/bin/lpstat ", "-h", $server, "-W not-comp
+leted");
print Dumper "cmd = @cups_num_jobs_cmd";
my @cups_num_jobs=system(@cups_num_jobs_cmd);
print Dumper "cups_jobs =  @cups_num_jobs";
$server_num_jobs=scalar(@cups_num_jobs);
print Dumper "server_num = $server_num_jobs";

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$server is the name of a cups server
I don't get any errors from the code, but what I am trying to do is to get the number of jobs back ie 3. If I run the command from the command line I get back three jobs as in the following: 
R_NETADMIN_NB-46        root             15360   Wed 16 Mar 2005 01:05
+:25 PM EST
RSPARE_NB-47            root             15360   Wed 16 Mar 2005 01:05
+:33 PM EST
RSPARE_NB-48            root             15360   Wed 16 Mar 2005 01:05
+:38 PM EST

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In reply to Number of lines from a system call by tcf03

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