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Re: strengthening a fragile test

by budman (Sexton)
on Feb 13, 2011 at 08:24 UTC ( [id://887830]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to strengthening a fragile test

What about sampling dates and then checking to see if the requested date is available.
use strict; use Date::Calc qw(Today Add_Delta_YM Month_to_Text); my @today=Today(); my $months_back; my @fetchDates; while ( @fetchDates < 2 ) { my @calcDate = Add_Delta_YM(@today[0,1],1,0,$months_back); my $date_str = $calcDate[0] .'-'. Month_to_Text($calcDate[1]); if ( &dateAvailable($date_str) ) { push @fetchDates, $date_str } $months_back--; } print "Retrieving dates:\n".join("\n",@fetchDates)."\n"; sub dateAvailable { my $date = shift; # check site of date can be downloaded return int(rand(2)); }
I used rand just to show how it would work
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