Re: Testing What Was Printed

[Michael G Schwern]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:46:51PM -0800, Jim Keenan wrote:
> Using the standard Test::More framework, is it
> possible to test whether what was printed to a
> filehandle matches a predetermined string or list of
> strings?

Any number of existing modules can be used which capture the output of
a filehandle.  IO::String, IO::Stringy and IO::Capture for example.
Otherwise its pretty trivial to write your own using tied filehandles, see 
t/lib/TieOut.pm in the Test-Simple distribution.