how to turn off warning message

chuckd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I'm receiving a warning message when using the Unicode::Map() module.
the message displayed looks like this:
Bad string size! at path/to/file/Unicode/Map.pm line 359
It starts to pump these messages out onto my screen. Does anyone know how I can disable this print statement?
I tried searching for this print statement but couldn't find it. I did a grep for it and grep found it in the map.dll. Does anyone have any advice?

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Re: how to turn off warning message by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 07, 2008 at 01:25 UTC
Can you reproduce the problem with a small sample script? In doing so you will either produce a sample to use in a bug report, or a sample that we can examine and advise on or you may discover a problem in your code and fix it. Probably better to show us the sample before you report a bug though. Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing	[reply]
Re^2: how to turn off warning message by chuckd (Scribe) on Nov 07, 2008 at 20:20 UTC
the code is pretty straight forward. my $map = new Unicode::Map("ISO-8859-1"); $text = $map->from_unicode($text); the text I keep sending in returns the error message.	[reply]
Re: how to turn off warning message by Anonymous Monk on Nov 07, 2008 at 07:25 UTC
Don't use `#!/usr/bin/perl -w`, instead `use warnings;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: how to turn off warning message by Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) on Nov 07, 2008 at 18:54 UTC
To expand on anonymonk's accurate but terse comment. Both `-w> and <c>use warnings;` turn on the warnings diagnostics, it's a matter of scope. `use warnings;` turns on warnings-checking in the file containing the statement (local scope). `-w` set warnings for your file and any `use`d modules (global scope). You usually (probably) want `use warnngs;` routinely. ---- I Go Back to Sleep, Now. OGB	[reply] [d/l] [select]