my @output = qx(geoip -s 209.197.123.153); print Dumper(\@output); print $output[5]; #Country : US United States #### use JSON::PP qw/decode_json/; use IPC::Run3::Shell::CLIWrapper; my $geoip = IPC::Run3::Shell::CLIWrapper->new( { fail_on_stderr=>1, stdout_filter => sub {$_=decode_json($_)} }, qw/ geoip --json --DB=dbi:SQLite:dbname=geoip / ); my $data = $geoip->('115.66.224.70');