I found from reading in perlop a suggestion to use chomp() to get rid of the extra newline at the end of my here-doc. For testing purposes I would like my test function to return exactly what the file contains. This is the first time I have noticed or cared about this so I thought I would share what I learned.

I'm working on my first module to upload to CPAN and I plan to put this function in a module in 't/lib'. Is there a nicer way to handle retrieving this? I could just make the function slurp the json file and return it. I've been looking at other modules but haven't found a good example yet. Thanks.

use warnings;
use strict;
use Test::More tests => 1;

print "-------\n";
print json_q();
print "-------\n";
print json_here();
print "-------\n";

is(json_q(), json_here(), "should be the same");

sub json_q {
q(      "Type": 0,
      "Width": 504,
      "X": 18,
      "Y": 18
    }
  ]
});

}

sub json_here {
    chomp(my $json = <<'END_JSON');
      "Type": 0,
      "Width": 504,
      "X": 18,
      "Y": 18
    }
  ]
}
END_JSON

$json
}
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The output looks like:

1..1
-------
      "Type": 0,
      "Width": 504,
      "X": 18,
      "Y": 18
    }
  ]
}-------
      "Type": 0,
      "Width": 504,
      "X": 18,
      "Y": 18
    }
  ]
}-------
ok 1 - should be the same
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