Rather than specifically closing STDOUT I opened a new file handle and selected it

use strict;
print "1: to STDOUT.\n";
my $output = '';
open TOOUTPUT, '>', \$output or die "Can't open TOOUTPUT: $!";
print "2: to STDOUT.\n";
print TOOUTPUT "3: to TOOUTPUT.\n";
select TOOUTPUT;
print "4: To STDOUT, (really TOOUTPUT though).\n";
select STDOUT;
print "5: To STDOUT again\n";
print TOOUTPUT "6: To TOOUTPUT.\n";
print "----\n".$output."-----\n";
print "Now we're done.\n";

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This is the results 
1: to STDOUT.
2: to STDOUT.
5: To STDOUT again
----
3: to TOOUTPUT.
4: To STDOUT, (really TOOUTPUT though).
6: To TOOUTPUT.
-----
Now we're done.

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In reply to Re^2: Redirect STDOUT to a $variable by Anonymous Monk
in thread Redirect STDOUT to a $variable by jeanluca

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