Bug#609205: ITP: libtest-file-contents-perl -- Perl module for testing the contents of files
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 02:23:15PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Alessandro Ghedini, Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:20:00PM +0100 |=-
> > Package: wnpp
> > * Package name : libtest-file-contents-perl
> > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-File-Contents/
> > Description : Perl module for testing the contents of files
> >
> > Test::File::Contents provides a set of routines useful to construct
> > tests that examine the content of files.
> >
> > It can check for an exact match and for a regexp match against the file's
> > contents, but also if the file's contents do not match a string or a
> > regexp and whether a file matches or not a given md5sum.
>
> Is that module able to test if the contents of a given file match the
> contents of another file?
Yes. Look at the file_contents_identical() subroutine.
> Bonus points if if shows a unified diff in case of mismatch.
No bonus points I fear. But maybe someone could work it out, the code
doesn't seem that complicated.
> That would be useful for dh-make-perl's test suite.
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perl -E'$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse'
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