I'm using UI::Dialog to select a file for processing. When I get to this point:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use UI::Dialog;

my $d = new UI::Dialog ( 
                title => 'SelectFile',
                order => [ 'kdialog', 'zenity', 'xdialog' ] 
                );
my $fileIn = $d->fselect( path => '/path/to/my/files/' );
say "Selected: $fileIn";
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The selected file name prints to the terminal but $fileIn in say "Selected: $fileIn"; line is empty. I swear it worked just a few months ago when I first created this script.

If I initialize $fileIn first and assign it some value, "test", for example, fselect still makes it empty again.

What gives? Is it something system related? I got it working with Tk but Tk doesn't look as nice as KDE's native file selection dialog.

UPDATE: As a workaround I used Capture::Tiny, put fselect into a sub, and chomped the return.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use UI::Dialog;
use Capture::Tiny ':all';

my $d = new UI::Dialog ( title => 'SelectFile',
      order => [ 'kdialog', 'zenity', 'xdialog' ] );
sub filename{
   my $selected = $d->fselect( path => '/path/to/my/files/' );
   return $selected;
}


my $fileIn = capture_stdout \&filename;
chomp $fileIn; #because there's newline at the end of stdout

say "Selected: $fileIn";
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