On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Lee Goddard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Does anyone know why the below is an error?
>
> # Failed test '-1 scalar'
> # at t/Time-Simple.t line 153.
> # got: '23:59:59'
> # expected: '23:59:59'
> # Looks like you failed 1 test of 100.
>
> ----
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/b5243d96-38ec-11e0-afb0-adca6bb533f3
Looking just at the test, the offending lines appears to be:
isa_ok($prevhour, 'Time::Simple');
is($prevhour, '23:59:59', '-1 scalar'); # this is the fail
You've got an object compared to a string. When you see
"got/expected" though, you're getting a stringification of the object.
I would think those are the same, but maybe there's something funny
in how is() treats objects. It's probably using the objects
comparison override. I would make the stringification explicit if
that's what you want:
is("$prevhour", '23:59:59', '-1 scalar');
Or make the comparison explicit if that's what you want:
ok( $prevhour eq '23:59:59', "-1 scalar");
is( $prevhour cmp '23:59:59', 0, "-1 scalar");
-- David
