> 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.
Something I put at the top of a lot of my test scripts is:
if(eval "require Test::Differences; 1") {
no warnings 'redefine';
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::Diff
On Dec 9, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
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 :)
Ah, yeah. Test::Differences is lin
On Dec 9, 2004, at 7:22 AM, Andy Lester wrote:
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::Differ
RGS has just released a new version of Test::LongString with patches I
made last night. I added a new function contains_string(), and lots
more docs.
Test::LongString is one of those modules that you should be using if
you're doing testing against large data elements, especially web pages.
