On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 03:34:02AM +0200, Sam Kington wrote: > (A) To say, flexibly, ???I want a data structure that looks like this???, and > to be able to say (1) this field must look exactly like this, (2) this field > should look like this, and remember it, (3) this field should exist, but I > don???t care what its value is, and (4) there might be additional fields but > I don???t care about them for the purpose of this test.
Investigate Params::Validate (which you're already using elsewhere in your code, although you're not using all of its functionality). It's pretty powerful. For checking deeply nested data structures in XML I like XPath. Data::DPath appears to allow similar syntax for inspecting perl data structures. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done
