Thanks for revisiting this. I have seen a number of good solutions here, and have a better understanding of the testing tools.

My current goal is to clean up the initial script so that the test code actually runs. I've done some work on this in the morning, and I see that my tests are using numeric equality improperly.

I will be looking at some of the subs in Test::More first, then I will explore some of the ideas presented in the re-writes of my code. Once it is cleaned up, it might make for a good tutorial series to introduce newcomers the concept of testing right at the beginning of their studies.

In reply to Re^4: How to write testable command line script? by thechartist
in thread How to write testable command line script? by thechartist

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