I'm a fan of test-driven development and I like the template you have created. Something like it could be useful for anyone with experience programming perl.

But a regex matching problem may be part of the first perl program a Seeker has ever written. Asking the Seeker to understand DATA statements and modules (where does like() come from? how is it defined?) may be raising the bar too high for a new user.

Perlmonks welcomes novices :)