warnings are lexically scoped so, for that solution to work you'd need to modify version.pm. JavaFan was spot on (below) - if you're interested, check the Parse::HTTP::UserAgent source code: in sub _numify you'll find the line my $rv = version->new("$v")->numify;.

Anyway, not being someone who likes to be beaten by zeros and ones, here's a workaround. Before the line:

my $ua = Parse::HTTP::UserAgent->new($useragent);

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add

$useragent =~ s{ ( [+] ) [[] [^]]+ []] ( [+] ) }{$1$2}msx;

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I ran a few tests with this and it seems to work fine. The test code and output is below (click on Read more...).

Test code:

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Parse::HTTP::UserAgent;

my @useragent_list = (
    q{Mozilla/4.06+[en]+(WinNT;+I)},
    q{Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.61},
    q{Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.4) Geck
+o/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4},
    q{Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.
+28 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.2 Safari/525.28.1},
);

for my $useragent (@useragent_list) {
    print q{UA: }, $useragent, qq{\n};
    $useragent =~ s{ ( [+] ) [[] [^]]+ []] ( [+] ) }{$1$2}msx;
    my $ua = Parse::HTTP::UserAgent->new($useragent);

    print $ua->name, qq{\n};
    print $ua->version, qq{\n};
    print $ua->os, qq{\n};
}

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Output:

$ ver_overload_prob.pl
UA: Mozilla/4.06+[en]+(WinNT;+I)
Netscape
4.060
Windows NT
UA: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.61
Opera
10.610
Windows XP
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/
+20091016 Firefox/3.5.4
Firefox
3.005004
Windows XP
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.28
+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.2 Safari/525.28.1
Safari
3.002002
Windows XP

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-- Ken

In reply to Re^3: Need to turn off prints from module by kcott
in thread Need to turn off prints from module by Mushka

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