in reply to Modules containing test code in the same file
If you do not have access to one of the better alternatives like Test::Inline, you can do the same kind of trick they do in python-land by evaluating the special variables $0 and __FILE__.
### begin_: file metadata ### <region-file_info> ### main: ### - name: trySelfTestModule ### desc: perl module w/ test script inside ### </region-file_info> ### begin_: init perl package trySelfTestModule; use strict; use warnings; use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $VERSION); use Exporter; $VERSION = 1.00; @ISA = qw(Exporter); @EXPORT = qw( ); ### begin_: test code ### test_: run this test iff this package ### is being run directly. We check to ### make sure the special variable $0 is ### equal to __FILE__ special variable if($0 eq __FILE__ ){ print trySelfTestModule::SayHello(); }; if($0 eq __FILE__ ){ print trySelfTestModule::SayByeBye(); }; ###end_test ### begin_: subroutine code push @EXPORT_OK, qw( SayHello ); sub SayHello { return "Hello World\n"; }###end_sub push @EXPORT_OK, qw( SayByeBye ); sub SayByeBye { return "ByeBye World\n"; }###end_sub ### begin_: end perl 1; __END__
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