There are three ways to run an external program from perl.

There aren't just those three built in to Perl, e.g. there are piped opens, but even so I recommend a module instead.

I didn't get any value when I execute the command below from Perl.

my $final = qx("cscript out2.vbs");
print STDOUT "Final: $final\n";
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Final: Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

my $final2 = system("cscript out2.vbs");
print STDOUT "Final2: $final2\n";
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Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Final2: 56320 Is 56320 the process ID from CScript?

out2.vbs

    Dim num1, num2, final, str
    num1 = 30
    num2 = 50
    str = "Final Value: "
    final = num1*num2
    'MSGBOX str & final
    WScript.Quit(final)
    'Wscript.Echo final
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If I echo in vbs, this value didn't store into Perl.

    Dim num1, num2, final, str
    num1 = 30
    num2 = 50
    str = "Final Value: "
    final = num1*num2
    'MSGBOX str & final
    'WScript.Quit(final)
    Wscript.Echo final
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my $final = qx("cscript out2.vbs");
print STDOUT "Final: --> $final\n";
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Final: --> Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

1500

Try

#!perl
use strict;
my $final = qx("cscript out2.vbs //NoLogo");
print "Final: --> $final\n"
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poj