This must be a FAQ but I've yet to find the FQ. A function in a module which will remain nameless in order to protect the guilty spews out loads of stuff on STDOUT which I want to send to /dev/null. What I do not want to to do is forgo the ability to have a Perl script send useful stuff to STDOUT before and after the function call, so it would be nice if the function could be bracketed as follows: 
$old_stdout = STDOUT;
open STDOUT '> /dev/null';
$results = sub_with_logorrhea();
close STDOUT;
open STDOUT $old_stdout;

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but I'm buggered if I can find out how to do it properly. Clearly it is a matter of advancing senility, for which I apologize and beg your indulgence.

In reply to Divert STDOUT temporarily by Xilman

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