our $VERSION; my $version_pod = <<"=cut"; =pod =head1 NAME blah blah =head1 VERSION @{[ $VERSION = "0.23" ]} =cut #### my $version_pod = <<'=cut'; =pod =head1 NAME blah blah... =head1 VERSION our $VERSION = "0.63"; =cut our $VERSION = "0.63"; # ... sub __test_version { my $v = __PACKAGE__->VERSION; return 1 if $version_pod =~ m/VERSION.*\Q$v/; return; } #### use Test::More tests => 2; BEGIN { use_ok('My::Module') }; ok(My::Module->__test_version, "version ok"); #### our $VERSION = ($version_pod =~ m/^our \$VERSION = "(\d+(?:\.\d+)+)"/m) ? $1 : "0.01";