Re: Test automation

You can do something like this:

sub main 
{
  until (should_stop())
  {
    # code goes here
  }
}

main unless caller;
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This way the main sub will be called only if the script is called directly and not if it is included in a test through require "script.pl".

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Re^2: Test automation by perl_help26 (Beadle) on Jul 01, 2015 at 14:46 UTC
Suppose we are running the script from crontab, will that be considered as a caller?	[reply]
Re^3: Test automation by Eily (Monsignor) on Jul 01, 2015 at 15:01 UTC
caller only knows about callers in the same perl process. So do or require will not trigger a main call, while cron, or even `system "perl script.pl";` will.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Test automation by perl_help26 (Beadle) on Jul 01, 2015 at 15:05 UTC
Thank you	[reply]