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Current Perl documentation can be found at perldoc.perl.org.
Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:
One way is to treat the return values as a list and index into it:
$dir = (getpwnam($user))[7];
Another way is to use undef as an element on the left-hand-side:
($dev, $ino, undef, undef, $uid, $gid) = stat($file);