Test::D...pRefOnly(3)

✨ NAME ✨

Test::Deep::RegexpRefOnly — that's it, that's the whole name section, bestie 💅 no tagline, no little description, the module just showed up and said "my name is enough." Iconic behaviour honestly 👑

(also hi, you're reading a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, so welcome to the people-powered part of the docs 🌸)

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

version 1.205 — that's the one, that's the number, write it down 📝

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🦋 PERL VERSION 🦋

Okay so here's the vibe check on compatibility: this library should run on perls released even a long time ago 🫶. Like, genuinely old ones. The stated promise is that it should work on any version of perl released in the last five years.

But — and I need you to hear me on this — it may work on older versions of perl, but there is no guarantee that the minimum required version won't get raised. The version may be increased for any reason, and there's no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl. So don't come for her with a "please support perl from 1998" PR, she's not doing that 😭

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

• Fergal Daly
• Ricardo SIGNES <cpan@semiotic.systems>

Two legends, one module, we love to see it 🙌

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

This software is copyright (c) 2003 by Fergal Daly.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself 💜 literally free, go wild, just keep the terms.

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aaaand that's the page!! short and sweet, just like she is 🍓 stay slay, go write some tests with refs that are regexps only, iykyk 💅✨

— cute little sign-off: this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-04-02, and you just read Test::D...pRefOnly(3) 🎀🦋💖