in reply to Telnet in perl

Read Net::Telnet again.. ;-)

$telnet->cmd() returns an array, which you are evaluating in scalar context (i.e. you're asking for the number of elements in the array).

say

@list = $telnet->cmd("hostname"); print "Host => $list[0]\n";

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}