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I know, but if system() runs something that produces output, I want it captured and can't:
Not so!!. Because system is not what you want to use to capture the output from a command use backticks or qx has it has been shown by others.
Then you can test your output if you want.

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Re^6: How to capture and verify STDOUT of a Perl Module
by yuri123 (Novice) on Jul 30, 2013 at 19:43 UTC
    Ok, I wanted to capture output from a call to a class method. Class method produces output by various means: print, system etc. Test::Output ties STDOUT and captures the calls to print and printf. As such it misses everything else including output from system(). I switched to Capture::Tiny and everything is great.