in reply to Compare two arrays of simple numbers

You can use Test::Differences for array comparison:
$ cat 642261.pl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More (tests => 2); use Test::Differences; my @foo = (1 .. 4); my @bar = (1 .. 4); eq_or_diff(\@foo, \@bar, q{compare foo with bar}); push @foo, 1; push @bar, 2; eq_or_diff(\@foo, \@bar, q{compare foo with bar}); __END__ $ perl 642261.pl 1..2 ok 1 - compare foo with bar not ok 2 - compare foo with bar # Failed test 'compare foo with bar' # at 642261.pl line 11. # +----+-----+----------+ # | Elt|Got |Expected | # +----+-----+----------+ # | 0|1 |1 | # | 1|2 |2 | # | 2|3 |3 | # | 3|4 |4 | # * 4|1 |2 * # +----+-----+----------+ # Looks like you failed 1 test of 2.
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Andreas