note IlyaM <p>It doesn't help if you want to capture STDERR and STDOUT in <i>separate</i> scalars.</p> <p>To answer [gmarler]'s question: if you just want to capture STDERR and STDOUT for an external program then it is rather easy to do with [cpan://IPC::Run]:</p> <code> use IPC::Run qw(run); my($out, $err); run ['/path/to/prog', 'arg1', 'arg2'], '>', \$out, '2>', \$err; </code> <p>You can find more complex examples in following nodes:</p> <ul> <li>[id://206655] <li>[id://212521] <li>[id://268889] </ul> <p> <font color="grey" size="-2"> --<br> Ilya Martynov, <a href="mailto:ilya@iponweb.net">ilya@iponweb.net</a><br> CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd<br> Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - <a href="http://www.iponweb.net">http://www.iponweb.net</a><br> Personal website - <a href="http://martynov.org/">http://martynov.org</a><br> </font> 274875 274915