NAME

       Test::Base::Filter - Default Filter Class for Test::Base

SYNOPSIS

           package MyTestSuite;
           use Test::Base -Base;

           ... reusable testing code ...

           package MyTestSuite::Filter;
           use Test::Base::Filter -Base;

           sub my_filter1 {
               ...
           }

DESCRIPTION

       Filters are the key to writing effective data driven tests with Test::Base.
       Test::Base::Filter is a class containing a large default set of generic filters. You can
       easily subclass it to add/override functionality.

FILTERS

       This is a list of the default stock filters (in alphabetic order):

   append
       list => list

       Append a string to each element of a list.

           --- numbers lines chomp append=-#\n join
           one
           two
           three

   array
       list => scalar

       Turn a list of values into an anonymous array reference.

   base64_decode
       scalar => scalar

       Decode base64 data. Useful for binary tests.

   base64_encode
       scalar => scalar

       Encode base64 data. Useful for binary tests.

   chomp
       list => list

       Remove the final newline from each string value in a list.

   chop
       list => list

       Remove the final char from each string value in a list.

   dumper
       scalar => list

       Take a data structure (presumably from another filter like eval) and use Data::Dumper to
       dump it in a canonical fashion.

   escape
       scalar => scalar

       Unescape all backslash escaped chars.

   eval
       scalar => list

       Run Perl's "eval" command against the data and use the returned value as the data.

   eval_all
       scalar => list

       Run Perl's "eval" command against the data and return a list of 4 values:

           1) The return value
           2) The error in $@
           3) Captured STDOUT
           4) Captured STDERR

   eval_stderr
       scalar => scalar

       Run Perl's "eval" command against the data and return the captured STDERR.

   eval_stdout
       scalar => scalar

       Run Perl's "eval" command against the data and return the captured STDOUT.

   exec_perl_stdout
       list => scalar

       Input Perl code is written to a temp file and run. STDOUT is captured and returned.

   flatten
       scalar => list

       Takes a hash or array ref and flattens it to a list.

   get_url
       scalar => scalar

       The text is chomped and considered to be a url. Then LWP::Simple::get is used to fetch the
       contents of the url.

   hash
       list => scalar

       Turn a list of key/value pairs into an anonymous hash reference.

   head[=number]
       list => list

       Takes a list and returns a number of the elements from the front of it. The default number
       is one.

   join
       list => scalar

       Join a list of strings into a scalar.

   Join
       Join the list of strings inside a list of array refs and return the strings in place of
       the array refs.

   lines
       scalar => list

       Break the data into an anonymous array of lines. Each line (except possibly the last one
       if the "chomp" filter came first) will have a newline at the end.

   norm
       scalar => scalar

       Normalize the data. Change non-Unix line endings to Unix line endings.

   prepend=string
       list => list

       Prepend a string onto each of a list of strings.

   read_file
       scalar => scalar

       Read the file named by the current content and return the file's content.

   regexp[=xism]
       scalar => scalar

       The "regexp" filter will turn your data section into a regular expression object. You can
       pass in extra flags after an equals sign.

       If the text contains more than one line and no flags are specified, then the 'xism' flags
       are assumed.

   reverse
       list => list

       Reverse the elements of a list.

   Reverse
       list => list

       Reverse the list of strings inside a list of array refs.

   slice=x[,y]
       list => list

       Returns the element number x through element number y of a list.

   sort
       list => list

       Sorts the elements of a list in character sort order.

   Sort
       list => list

       Sort the list of strings inside a list of array refs.

   split[=string|pattern]
       scalar => list

       Split a string in into a list. Takes a optional string or regexp as a parameter. Defaults
       to /\s+/. Same as Perl "split".

   Split[=string|pattern]
       list => list

       Split each of a list of strings and turn them into array refs.

   strict
       scalar => scalar

       Prepend the string:

           use strict;
           use warnings;

       to the block's text.

   tail[=number]
       list => list

       Return a number of elements from the end of a list. The default number is one.

   trim
       list => list

       Remove extra blank lines from the beginning and end of the data. This allows you to
       visually separate your test data with blank lines.

   unchomp
       list => list

       Add a newline to each string value in a list.

   write_file[=filename]
       scalar => scalar

       Write the content of the section to the named file. Return the filename.

   yaml
       scalar => list

       Apply the YAML::Load function to the data block and use the resultant structure. Requires
       YAML.pm.

AUTHOR

       Ingy dA~Xt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006, 2011. Ingy dA~Xt Net. All rights reserved.  Copyright (c) 2005. Brian
       Ingerson. All rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

       See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html