[ale] Perl Question

[bkruger at mindspring.com (Bob Kruger)]

A quick Perl question...

I have a perl script that I would like to run that includes a "system"
command.  I would like to capture the result of this system command to a
perl variable that I can use later.

example

#!/usr/bin/perl
#The following system command generates a Julian date
system('date +%j') ;
print "The Julian date is $d " ;

The question is how to capture the output of the system command to the
variable $d.

As always, thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards - Bob Kruger