how to find status of last executed cmd in perl?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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In shell we can find the status of last executed command by $?
In perl what is the command to find the status of last executed command...
Can any one please say???????????????

Thanks,
Prabhu

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Actually, it's $? in Perl too (although Perl encodes it differently; see the description in the perlvar manual page).