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Re^5: At which line number did the print statement occure?

by Sartak (Hermit)
on Oct 13, 2006 at 17:32 UTC ( [id://578182]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: At which line number did the print statement occure?
in thread At which line number did the print statement occure?

The distinction between $0 and __FILE__ is handy. You can use it to implement unit tests for classes. I do this a lot in Ruby. For example, in classFoo.pm:

#/usr/bin/perl
package Foo;

sub new {
  # ...
}

# other stuff

if (__FILE__ eq $0) {
  my $foo = new Foo;
  # test foo's methods, etc
}

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Now you'll only get the unit tests if you run classFoo.pm directly, because otherwise, __FILE__ ne $0.

Of course, I must recommend using Test::More and friends instead. Just showing a possible application of the subtle difference between __FILE__ and $0.

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Re^6: At which line number did the print statement occure?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 13, 2006 at 17:54 UTC
    caller is more reliable for this. 
    #!/usr/bin/perl

package Foo;

sub new {
  # ...
}

# other stuff

if (!caller()) {
  my $foo = new Foo;
  # test foo's methods, etc
}

1;

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