#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 1; my ( $DS1, $DS2 ) = get_hashes(); is_deeply( $DS1, $DS2 ); sub get_hashes { my %DS1 = ( PERL => [ { TABLES => { TABSCHEMA => "VARCHAR(128)", TABNAME => "VARCHAR(128)", } }, { COLUMNS => { TABSCHEMA => "VARCHAR(128)", TABNAME => "VARCHAR(128)", COLNAME => "VARCHAR(128)", PARTKEYSEQ => "SMALLINT", } } ] ); my %DS2 = ( PERL => [ { TABLES => { TABSCHEMA => "VARCHAR(256)", TABNAME => "VARCHAR(128)", } }, { COLUMNS => { TABSCHEMA => "VARCHAR(256)", TABNAME => "VARCHAR(128)", COLNAME => "VARCHAR(128)", PARTKEYSEQ => "SMALLINT", } } ] ); return ( \%DS1, \%DS2 ); } __END__ #### 1..1 not ok 1 # Failed test at 1157115.pl line 7. # Structures begin differing at: # $got->{PERL}[0]{TABLES}{TABSCHEMA} = 'VARCHAR(128)' # $expected->{PERL}[0]{TABLES}{TABSCHEMA} = 'VARCHAR(256)' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.