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in thread Test::More - equal_set

Thanks for that, edoc. That makes at least two of us who've interpreted the docs in a way that wasn't intended.

So, is the best way to proceed to sort my array before I do the test? This time I've already defined a way to order my hashrefs, but I can see that sometimes I might have to write a sorting function when I otherwise might not have needed to.

So now I'm thinking that it should be possible to write a standard comparison function, that works by examining the output of Data::Dumper to force a well defined (but otherwise meaningless) order on an array, so that it could make equal_set work as I thought the docs said it should.

Anyone see why this shouldn't work? Can anybody see any traps I might fall into, if i were to try to write this?

Kind regards,

brewer

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Re: Re: Test::More - equal_set
by edoc (Chaplain) on Jun 01, 2003 at 02:23 UTC

    ok, knew there had to be something out there... Test::Deep using 'bag' (or set maybe, they look the same in the docs..) Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a standard Perl module.

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use Test::More qw(no_plan);
use Test::Deep;

my (@this,@that);

@this = ( { fred => 1 }, { wilma => 1 } );
@that = ( { wilma => 1 }, { fred => 1 } );

cmp_deeply(\@this, bag(@that), 'cmp_deeply Deep Order Diff');

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    cheers,

    J

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      Thanks again, It looks like I don't get to write anything - cmp_bag() from Test::Deep gives me one more passed test.

      I'm really starting to see the value in writing tests - I may try writing the tests before the code for the next itch that I scratch.

      Kind regards,

      brewer
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