suppressing error messages

[awingnut]

Although I cannot find it, I thought there was a directive for turning off error messages. How do I turn off error messages from perl calls that I expect? TIA.

 

[fishiface]

Redirect your STDERR to the bit bucket (or don't make errors ;-)


Yours,


fish

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
--Maurice Wilkes

 

[badco]

Try this:

open STDERR, "> /dev/null" || die "Cant redirect standard error: $!";

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[awingnut]

Thanks. I didn't think that would work with Windows but it does.

 

[fishiface]

I think that some ports of perl fake /dev/null. In general, I think you should open the appropriate bit-bucket for your platform, which would be [tt]NUL:[/tt] under windoze.

On the other hand, if it works...

Yours,


fish


"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
--Maurice Wilkes