Re: qx, Filter::Simple, and testing

From: Peter Scott (peter_at_PSDT.com)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:39:56 GMT

In article <d0au0t$dkk$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
 anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel) writes:
>Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>>
>> I'm working on a module that uses source filtering, using Filter::Simple.
>> One of the things it does is replacing certain constructs inside double
>> quoted environments, like "", qq {}, etc. Testing "", s///, m//, qq{}
>> is fairly straightforward.
>>
>> I'm looking for ideas on how to test qx{} (and ``). It should work on
>> any platform Perl works on, and it should be safe.
>
>So you want something that can be safely executed on every system that
>runs Perl (whatever "execute" means on that system). Is that what you're
>getting at? If not, apologies.

The one executable you can count on being there is perl, so I
would think executing `$^X -v` would be pretty safe. Although
according to perlvar there are platforms that don't support
command output capture to begin with. 

-- 
Peter Scott
http://www.perlmedic.com/
http://www.perldebugged.com/

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