TEST2::COMPARE::PATTERN(3perl)

💖 NAME 💖

Test2::Compare::Pattern — bestie, this is the glow-up that lets you validate a value in a deep comparison using a pattern. Regex-coded queen energy. 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so picture this: you're doing a deep comparison, and one of the values is being ✨extra✨. This module lets you roll up with a regex and be like "girl, you just gotta look right, I don't need your whole life story."

Sometimes a value just needs to look right — it doesn't need to be exact, bestie. Fr fr.

The iconic example? A memory address 🧠 that might change from run to run. Like, she's a different girl every time you see her, but she still needs to be shaped like a memory address. And Test2::Compare::Pattern is the vibe check that makes sure of it. 💅

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🌈 SOURCE 🌈

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at:

https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/

go 👏 look 👏 at 👏 it 👏 — the source is right there, no gatekeeping here, iykyk 🫶

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🎀 MAINTAINERS 🎀

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

(the main character of this whole operation, periodt 💜)

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🦋 AUTHORS 🦋

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

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ok that's the whole page bestie, no notes, she ate and left zero crumbs 💀✨

That's the teardown from the perl v5.44.0 release, dated 2026-10-17 — straight out of the Perl Programmers Reference Guide. mwah, go write some tests 🌸💖