David Wheeler wrote in perl.qa : >> Test::LongString is one of those modules that you should be using if >> you're doing testing against large data elements, especially web pages. >> There are now examples in the docs that I hope make you say "Wow, this >> is cool, thanks RGS!" > > I use Text::Differences for this, as it will show which lines are > different, rather than just the first 50 characters. Much easier for me > to diagnose problems.
It's probably better adapted to text pages. I wrote Test::LongString to debug and test a serialization/deserialization protocol that was producing long binary strings. For this purpose, it was most helpful :)
