Thanks for you reply,
Again everything works running perl in cgi-bin directory, but when I run it through the browser everything is fine except calling perl inside.

When I use system() it says "cmd in not found in the path..." which is the path to cgi-bin dir where the scripts are..??
With backtiks call it ia just ignored, so
@arr = `perl -w xxx "print results to STDOUT"`
returns an empty @arr.