Reading output from command into Perl array

Question

I want to get the output of a command into an array — like this:

my @output = `$cmd`;

but it seems that the output from the command

Answer 1

The (standard) output does go to that array:

david@cyberman:listing # cat > demo.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use v5.14;
use Data::Dump qw/ddx/;

my @output = `ls -lh`;
ddx \@output;
david@cyberman:listing # touch a b c d
david@cyberman:listing # perl demo.pl
# demo.pl:8: [
#   "total 8\n",
#   "-rw-r--r--  1 david  staff     0B  5 Jun 12:15 a\n",
#   "-rw-r--r--  1 david  staff     0B  5 Jun 12:15 b\n",
#   "-rw-r--r--  1 david  staff     0B  5 Jun 12:15 c\n",
#   "-rw-r--r--  1 david  staff     0B  5 Jun 12:15 d\n",
#   "-rw-r--r--  1 david  staff   115B  5 Jun 12:15 demo.pl\n",
# ]