I built the aging but probably still-useful module extension HTML::Tidy this week (and, oi, that was an adventure) and it is failing one test. Built it using/for StrawberryPerl. I inserted blank lines in the screen output pasted below, for easier reading.

$ perl -T -Iblib/lib -Iblib/arch  t/clean.t

not ok 3 - $tidy->clean("") returns empty HTML document
#   Failed test '$tidy->clean("") returns empty HTML document'
#   at t/clean.t line 20.

#                   '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
# <html>
# <head>
# <meta name="generator" content="tidyp for Windows (v1.04), see www.w
+3.org">
# <title></title>
# </head>
# <body>
# </body>
# </html>
# '
#     doesn't match '(?^:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//
+EN">
# <html>
# <head>
# <meta name="generator" content="[^"]+">
# <title></title>
# </head>
# <body>
# </body>
# </html>
# )'

Looks like you failed 1 test of 3.

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My perl is this: 

  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32
    osvers=10.0.22631.5189
    archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.40.2.1 # 05:42:50 Sun May 11 2025 x64'

Can anyone explain Andy's intent in how he coded that test? Thanks all.

Sep 19, 2025 at 22:28 UTC

In reply to Let's play 'explain the error' in test suite for HTML::Tidy by Intrepid

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