Re: Testing What Was Printed

[Michael G Schwern]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:47:56PM -0500, David A. Golden wrote:
> >The trouble with this interface is sometimes you want to collect a bunch
> >of output from a bunch of different functions together.
> 
> That's why I suggested that it be prototyped to take a code block:
> 
> stdout_is {
>     fcn1();
>     # more processing
>     fcn2();
> } $expected, "comment";

Be very careful you do not alter the output with your code block.  For
example:

        stdout_is {
                print scalar caller;
        } scalar caller;