in reply to Re^3: The Rules of Optimization Club
in thread The Rules of Optimization Club

Arguably, feeding the head of the 25GB input file to your one-liner and checking the output displayed looks right, is a different one-time script to the feeding it the whole thing and redirecting the output to the results file.

But it's definitely a test worth doing :)


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The start of some sanity?

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Re^5: The Rules of Optimization Club
by JavaFan (Canon) on Mar 31, 2012 at 09:20 UTC
    Of course, no disagreement there. I certainly would not write a test suite using Test::* for that.

      As may be obvious by now, neither would I :)