Just thought I would follow this up with my alternative solution to this (for anyone who is curious or has a similar issue).

After reading more on Test::More I decided to use the pass and fail functions instead. This means I can do a normal if statement with the regex pattern matching and pass $1 or $& into them instead. For example:

if ($sel->get_value("name=wlSsid_wl0v0") =~ /(\S{1,})/) {
pass("1000.0362 SSID - $1 - was displayed on the wireless settings pag
+e");
} else {
fail("1000.0362 SSID - $1 - was displayed on the wireless settings pag
+e");
}

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It's a bit more clunky but does the job nicely.

In reply to Re: Test::More not working with Perl local special variables by Doozer
in thread Test::More not working with Perl local special variables by Doozer

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