#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use Test::More qw' no_plan '; Main( @ARGV ); exit( 0 ); sub Main { my @arg = ( [ [ '--foo=bar', '--foo', 'bar' ], undef, {foo => 'bar' } ], [ [ '--foo', 'bar' ], undef, {foo => 'bar' } ], [ [ '--one=two', '--foo', 'bar' ], undef, {one => 'two', foo => 'bar' } ], ); for my $arg( @arg ){ my( $in, $spec, $expected ) = @$arg; my $got = MapArg($in,$spec); is_deeply($got, $expected , "( @$in )" ); } } sub MapArg { my( $arg, $spec ) = @_; my %res = map {/^--(.*?)=/ => /=(.*)$/} @$arg; return \%res; } __END__ # Failed test '( --foo bar )' # at - line 20. # Structures begin differing at: # $got->{foo} = Does not exist # $expected->{foo} = 'bar' # Failed test '( --one=two --foo bar )' # at - line 20. # Structures begin differing at: # $got->{foo} = Does not exist # $expected->{foo} = 'bar' # Looks like you failed 2 tests of 3.