I'm not sure if I'm using Test::Exception right. Here's the gist of my original test, with the code in eval pulled out and switched to use dies_ok():

unlink 'test.errors';

redirect_error( output_file => 'test.errors' ); # sets $redirected{err
+or_messages} to 1

dies_ok { lcroak "this is a sample error file" };

ok( -T 'test.errors',
    "lcroak opens the error file specified by redirect_error()." );

my $text = `cat test.errors`;
like( $text , qr/this is a sample error file/,
    "lcroak writes to the error file specified by redirect_error()." )
+;

unlink 'test.errors';

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--and I get this:

#   Failed test 'lcroak writes to the error file specified by redirect
+_error().'
t/lcroak....NOK 4#   in t/lcroak.t at line 25.
#                   ''
#     doesn't match '(?-xism:this is a sample error file)'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 4.

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I did try local $@, like so, but perhaps I'm doing it wrong:

{
local $@;
eval {
    lcroak "this is a sample error file";
};
ok($@, "lcroak terminates");
}

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That still redirect STDERR to test.error, however.

In reply to Re^2: Testing redirected croak messages by macrobat
in thread Testing redirected croak messages by macrobat

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