diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index db3c3083f33fb82a6c3319614bd8ca836241eca3..e73e20a1520df4ddbce84de6ce7ce01cce744793 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -434,7 +434,8 @@ sub displaydata {
 
     unlink($memdump); # remove this if there was one left
 
-    my $version=`$CURL -V`;
+    my @version=`$CURL -V`;
+    my $version=$version[0];
     chomp $version;
 
     my $curl = $version;