Fixed. See note below.

I'm writing a test for a method that uses mkpath. I want the test to fail and I can trap the error ok but I'd also like to supress any output.

From the docs

If a system error prevents a directory from being created, then the mkpath function throws a fatal error with Carp::croak.
What's the best way of going about this? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Path;

my $path = q{a:/tmp}; # non existent drive

eval {no warnings 'all'; mkpath $path};

if ($@){
    print qq{failed\n};
}
else{
    print qq{ok\n};
}

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produces 
Argument "No such file or directory; The system cannot find the pa..."
+ isn't numeric in scalar assignment at c:/perl/lib/File/Path.pm line 
+152.
failed

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update: fixed typo
update 2
Fixed. I upgraded from mkpath 1.0901 to 2.04. Many thanks to Clinton and the crew in the CB.

In reply to Fixed: Suppressing mkpath error output by wfsp

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