#!./perl BEGIN: { chdir 't'; @INC = '../lib'; require './test.pl'; } plan(tests => 6); open(TRY,'>Comp.try') || (die "Can't open temp file."); $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,'Comp.try') || (die "Can't reopen temp file."); $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' || $^O eq 'VMS') ? `type Comp.try` : ($^O eq 'MacOS') ? `catenate Comp.try` : `cat Comp.try`; like($out, qr/.*\n.*\n.*\n$/); close(TRY) || (die "Can't close temp file."); unlink 'Comp.try' || `/bin/rm -f Comp.try`; is($out, $y);