perlfaq7: How do I temporarily block warnings?

* mention warning categories and perllexwarn


Index: perlfaq7.pod
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RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq7.pod,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -d -r1.17 perlfaq7.pod
--- perlfaq7.pod        19 Oct 2004 22:53:50 -0000      1.17
+++ perlfaq7.pod        30 Oct 2004 12:41:39 -0000
@@ -97,6 +97,16 @@
        no warnings;          # temporarily turn off warnings
        $a = $b + $c;         # I know these might be undef
     }
+    
+Additionally, you can enable and disable categories of warnings.
+You turn off the categories you want to ignore and you can still
+get other categories of warnings.  See L<perllexwarn> for the
+complete details, including the category names and hierarchy.
+
+       {
+       no warnings 'uninitialized';
+       $a = $b + $c;
+       }
 
 If you have an older version of Perl, the C<$^W> variable (documented
 in L<perlvar>) controls runtime warnings for a block:

-- 
brian d foy, [email protected]