Test::Deep just to verify that the list is, in fact, a list? I'll have to look into it.

You seem to want to do more than just that. You updated the OP to say that you wanted this: 

ok( ref( $list ) eq 'ARRAY', 'returned a list' );
ok( scalar( @$list ), 'returned a populated list' );
ok( ref( $list->[0] ) eq 'HASH', 'first element is a hashref ...' );

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But that IMO is only minimally testing your structure. With Test::Deep you could do this: 

cmp_deeply(
    $list,
    all(
        isa('ARRAY'),
        array_each(
            all(
                isa('HASH'),
                { option => re(...), menu => ignore() }
            )
        )
    )
);

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This code would test that $list is an ARRAY reference, then that all the elements in it are HASH references, then it will check the structure of the hash (this part I made up as an example), to confirm that it has a key 'option' whose value matches a given reg-exp, and that it has a 'menu' key, but you can safely ignore the value in the test.

With Test::Deep you can test the entire structure while only go as deeply as needed in the specifics of that structure. It's really powerful stuff IMO :)

-stvn

In reply to Re^3: Test::More and is_array by stvn
in thread Test::More and is_array by geektron

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