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I'm Andy Lester, and I like to test stuff. I also write for the Perl Journal, and do tech edits on books. Sometimes I write code, too.

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Sunday June 29, 2003
08:40 PM

Hooray for Test::LongString

[ #13139 ]
I was having problems figuring out why my tests were failing in WWW::Mechanize, so I pulled out Test::LongString, and look what it showed:

t/tick............NOK 5#     Failed test (t/tick.t at line 39)
#          got: "POST http://x/\x{0a}Content-Length: 21\x{0a}Content-"...
#       length: 113
#     expected: "POST http://x/\x{0a}Content-Length: 21 \x{0a}Content"...
#       length: 114
#     strings begin to differ at char 23
# Looks like you failed 1 tests of 5.

Oooh, an extra, invisible space! Thanks, Test::LongString! (and Rafaël!)


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  • I wrote it when I was dealing with large strings with lots of non-printable characters -- a custom binary serialization scheme. -- I've a to-do list for this module. Notably, improve diagnostics : print in the message the part where the strings begin to differ.
  • Turns out that there are subtle internal differences between 5.6.0 (where GraphViz::Data::Structure works) and 5.8.0 (where it doesn't, at all).

    This will make is much easier to see where the emitted dot code is different. Thanks from me too.
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