[coders] Re: Silencing STDERR in Perl

[Carlo Sogono <carlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlo Sogono wrote:
> I've got a script that uses a module which dies and shouts at stderr 
> during an error. I can catch these errors nicely with eval but I want to 
> do something about what it spews at at stderr...basically print my own 
> customised error. Editing the Perl module would be a quick fix but I'd 
> rather not do that as I'll be deploying this code on different machines.
>
> So, is there any way to silence stderr from within a perl script (no 
> shell redirections to /dev/null please)?

Nevermind, I'm such a silly person. stderr does get caught...

> Cheers,
> Carlo