Test2::...e::Meta(3pm)

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version 5.42.3 · 16 versions
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✨ NAME ✨

Test2::Compare::Meta — Check library for meta-checks 💖

Okay bestie, this is the Test2::Compare::Meta page — the manual header files it under Test2::...e::Meta(3pm) and it lives in the Perl Programmers Reference Guide. It’s giving “deep-comparison side quest” energy, and honestly? Iconic.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Sometimes in a deep comparison you want to run extra checks against an item down the chain. You know the vibe: you’re already comparing the big thing, but this one little item needs its own spotlight moment.

This library allows you to write a check that verifies several attributes of an item. Slay. It’s literally a little checkup for one item, no cap.

🔍 DEFINED CHECKS 🔍

These are the checks the library defines, bestie — each one is a different little vibe check for the item:

  • blessed — Lets you check that an item is blessed, and that it is blessed into the expected class. Classy behavior only. 🎀
  • reftype — Lets you check the reftype of the item. Gotta know what kind of ref you’re dealing with. 🔥
  • isa — Lets you check if the item is an instance of the expected class. “Are you one of us?” energy. 👑
  • this — Lets you check the item itself. Like, the actual item. Main character. ⭐
  • size — Lets you check the size of the item. For an arrayref this is the number of elements. For a hashref this is the number of keys. For everything else this is undef. That last part is important, bestie — everything else gets undef. 💀

🔗 SOURCE 🔗

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/.

Go off, open source. 💅

🫶 MAINTAINERS 🫶

  • Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

✨ AUTHORS ✨

  • Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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/

💖 Final vibe check: this page is from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03, and yes — it’s filed as Test2::...e::Meta(3pm). Bye bestie! 🦋

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