Hi,

I'm trying to get form to return some text completely unchanged. The tricky part seems to be that my input might be any length.

Here's what I've tried: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More tests => 3;

use Perl6::Form;

my $var = " a b c ";

my $got1 = form "#{'(8+)'}#", $var;
is( $got1, "#$var#", "'(8+)'");

my $got2 = form "#{'+}#", $var;
is( $got2, "#$var#", "'+");

my $got3 = form "#{''''}#", $var;
is( $got3, "#$var#", "''''");

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which returns: 
1..3
not ok 1 - '(8+)'
#   Failed test ''(8+)''
#   at /home/boldra/form_test.pl line 10.
#          got: '#a b c   #
# '
#     expected: '# a b c #'
not ok 2 - '+
#   Failed test ''+'
#   at /home/boldra/form_test.pl line 13.
#          got: '#a b c#
# '
#     expected: '# a b c #'
not ok 3 - ''''
#   Failed test ''''''
#   at /home/boldra/form_test.pl line 16.
#          got: '# a b c#
# '
#     expected: '# a b c #'
# Looks like you failed 3 tests of 3.

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I realise that this may seem pointless to pass something to form if I don't want it formatted, but in practice I'm trying to mix a unformatted field with a number of formatted fields, and I wanted to use form for all of my variables to make it easy to visualise and/or change the output.

Am I missing something in the doc? How do I get form to leave my input completely alone?


- Boldra

In reply to Perl6::Form verbatim won't do what I want by Boldra

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