How to redirect the STDERR to a variable in perl?

Shell Programming and Scripting
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in my perl script

i tried the below statement

$result = `cleartool  rmstream -f $s1 1> /dev/null`;

so as to redirect then error messages,when i print the $result

,it seems to be Null.

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$result = `cleartool rmstream -f $s1 2> /dev/null`;
3

You are jus redirecting the stderr to /dev/null, i want the error message to be stored in a variable

4

Try:

$result = `cleartool  rmstream -f $s1 2>&1 >/dev/null`;
5

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