So I've done a bad thing (TM) I am certain. I wanted to easiliy create a slew of "data files" from exisiting code that could be read back in and executed and later allow us to add many, many more test files. So I opted to use Data::Dumper to create the initial files, fixed them up a bit, then used the following to set the needed values for each test: 

{ no strict 'vars';

local $/;
my $in;

open $in, '<', $test_env or die "...";
my $rc = eval <$in>;
close $in;

#  set various values from that data structure.

};

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The above is essentially in a loop, reading in each test data file.

Besides the obvious of redesigning the data files as XML or some other, is there anyway to accomplish the above in a way that perlcritic is happy with? I have a bazillion test_xxx.pl files I'd rather not recreate at the moment.

In reply to perlcritic compliant way to eval? by KeighleHawk

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