I've stumbled on a bit of an odd case where I have constantly shifting data I
need to test. Ordinarily I would use cmp_deeply from Test::Deep, but it's not
quite structured enough. I need something similar to a Levenshtein edit
distance for complex data structures.
Let's say I have an AoA like this:
[
[ 1, 'North Beach', 'au', 'city' ],
[ 2, 'North Beach', 'us', 'city' ],
[ 3, 'North Beach', 'us', 'city' ],
[ 4, 'North Beach Hotel', 'us', 'hotel' ],
[ 5, 'North Beach', 'us', 'city' ],
[ 6, 'North Beach', 'us', 'city' ],
]
It's OK if I get back that data structure, but the 2 and 4 records are swapped
or maybe the 5 isn't present. However, for any contained array reference its
exact data can't change. However, if those came back in the order of
6,5,4,3,2,1, the test should fail (thus, I can't use bag tests).
Does anyone know of any test modules which allows this?
Cheers,
Ovid
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