Telnet output to variable

RouterOS Scripting
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So, I was hoping to simple run this, and have the output placed into a variable that I could then parse.
Unfortunately, it appears that the telnet output is sent directly to the console and cannot be captured.
Any ideas of a simple way to get text from an outside source into a variable WITHOUT writing it to a file?
I want to avoid writing to the NAND/Flash as much as possible.

:local output [/system telnet port=6501 address=mikrotikfilters.com]
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you know… maybe I’ll just use DNS. I’ll have to see how that works.