I am attempting to write a subroutine and get back the return value. I am unaware of a key ingredient that makes this work properly because I am not able to get the return value.

This is what I have so far. I would appreciate any help in making me understand what I don't know about passing the return value back to the rest of the script. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $List = "/bin/ls";
my $tmp = "/tmp";
my $var = "/var";
my ($Results1, $Results2);
&DoList($List, $Results1, $Results2, $tmp, $var);

print "Tmp is\n$Results1\n";

print "Var is\n$Results2\n";

sub DoList {

my ($List, $Results1, $Results2, $tmp, $var);
($List, $Results1, $Results2, $tmp, $var) = @_;

$Results1 = `$List $tmp`;
$Results2 = `$List $var`;
return( $Results1, $Results2);
}

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