#!./perl BEGIN { chdir 't'; @INC = '../lib'; require './test.pl'; } plan(tests => 6); my $filename = tempfile(); open(TRY,'>',$filename) || (die "Can't open $filename: $!"); $x = 'now is the time for all good men to come to. ! '; $y = 'now is the time' . "\n" . 'for all good men' . "\n" . 'to come to.' . "\n\n\n!\n\n"; is($x, $y, 'test data is sane'); print TRY $x; close TRY or die "Could not close: $!"; open(TRY,$filename) || (die "Can't reopen $filename: $!"); $count = 0; $z = ''; while () { $z .= $_; $count = $count + 1; } is($z, $y, 'basic multiline reading'); is($count, 7, ' line count'); is($., 7, ' $.' ); $out = (($^O eq 'MSWin32') || $^O eq 'NetWare') ? `type $filename` : ($^O eq 'VMS') ? `type $filename.;0` # otherwise .LIS is assumed : ($^O eq 'MacOS') ? `catenate $filename` : `cat $filename`; like($out, qr/.*\n.*\n.*\n$/); close(TRY) || (die "Can't close $filename: $!"); is($out, $y);