I want to check whether Perl scripts compile correctly. I want to compile a bunch of perlscripts, within a pl script. So I want to capture the output of  perl -c scriptname, the "ok" part, to check if syntax is ok. Why is the output always going to stderr? I want to capture it in $result.My code is:

BTW i am working on Windows...

use strict;
use warnings;

# Capture the output of the "dir" command:

my $dir=`dir compile.pl`;
print $dir;

# Now capture the output of this:
my $result=`perl -c compile.pl`;

# Check if there is anything in $result
print "Length is :".length($result);

exit 0;

# This results in the following output :

__DATA__
29-06-2012  11:44               412 compile.pl
.
.
compile.pl syntax OK
Length is :0

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In reply to capture output of perl -c scriptname by cztmonk

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