perlquestion
Lotus1
<p>I found from reading in [doc://perlop#Indented-Here-docs|perlop] a suggestion to use <c>chomp()</c> to get rid of the extra newline at the end of my here-doc. For testing purposes I would like my test function to return exactly what the file contains. This is the first time I have noticed or cared about this so I thought I would share what I learned.</p>
<p>I'm working on my first module to upload to CPAN and I plan to put this function in a module in 't/lib'. Is there a nicer way to handle retrieving this? I could just make the function slurp the json file and return it. I've been looking at other modules but haven't found a good example yet. Thanks. </p>
<c>
use warnings;
use strict;
use Test::More tests => 1;
print "-------\n";
print json_q();
print "-------\n";
print json_here();
print "-------\n";
is(json_q(), json_here(), "should be the same");
sub json_q {
q( "Type": 0,
"Width": 504,
"X": 18,
"Y": 18
}
]
});
}
sub json_here {
chomp(my $json = <<'END_JSON');
"Type": 0,
"Width": 504,
"X": 18,
"Y": 18
}
]
}
END_JSON
$json
}
</c>
<p>The output looks like:</p>
<c>
1..1
-------
"Type": 0,
"Width": 504,
"X": 18,
"Y": 18
}
]
}-------
"Type": 0,
"Width": 504,
"X": 18,
"Y": 18
}
]
}-------
ok 1 - should be the same
</c>