You might want to give Perl::Compare a look.

UPDATE

Actually it seems that Perl::Compare might not be in the best state right now (it seems he is working on updating it to the latest PPI version). A simplistic replacement is using the normalized method of the PPI::Document object and then comparing the results (the results are actually PPI::Document::Normalized objects which have their == operators overloaded). Here is some code: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use PPI::Document;

my $d1 = PPI::Document->new('$x++');
my $d2 = PPI::Document->new('$x += 1');
my $d3 = PPI::Document->new('$x = x + 1');

print((($d1->normalized() == $d2->normalized) &&
       ($d2->normalized() == $d3->normalized) &&
       ($d3->normalized() == $d1->normalized)) ? 
        "they are all equivalent\n" : "they are not equvalient\n");

print(($d1->normalized() == $d2->normalized) ? 
        "1 and 2 are equivalent\n" : "1 and 2 are not equvalient\n");
print(($d2->normalized() == $d3->normalized) ? 
        "2 and 3 are equivalent\n" : "2 and 3 are not equvalient\n");
print(($d3->normalized() == $d1->normalized) ? 
        "3 and 1 are equivalent\n" : "3 and 1 are not equvalient\n");

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And the output: 
they are not equvalient
1 and 2 are not equvalient
2 and 3 are not equvalient
3 and 1 are not equvalient

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-stvn

In reply to Re: Equivalency of Code by stvn
in thread Equivalency of Code by rkosai

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