system command to perl variable

[Jose Malacara]

Hello. I was wondering if there is a way to capture a system command into a 
perl variable. I know this is incorrect, but I basically want to do something 
like this:

$date = system("date");
print "Today is $date.";

Thanks,
Jose

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