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Re: How to output backtick or qx to a variable and STDOUT at the same time?

by Utilitarian (Vicar)
on Nov 20, 2012 at 08:39 UTC ( [id://1004674]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How to output backtick or qx to a variable and STDOUT at the same time?

What I suspect your tutor wants you to prove you understand is that assignment returns the value assigned on success.
Try the following
perl -e 'print $out=qx(ls );print "+" x 80 , "\n";print $out'
print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

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