#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::Simple; my $str1 = "helloworld"; my $str2 = "hello"; my $str3 = "hello"; ok( is_substring($str2, $str1), "str2 is a substring of str1"); ok( !is_substring($str3, $str2), "str3 is not a substring of str2"); sub is_substring { my ($substring, $string) = @_; return 1 if index($string, $substring) > -1 && $string ne $substring; }