Storable
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#!./perl -w
#
# Copyright (c) 1995-2000, Raphael Manfredi
#
# You may redistribute only under the same terms as Perl 5, as specified
# in the README file that comes with the distribution.
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use Storable qw(thaw freeze);
use Test::More tests => 6;
my $x = chr(1234);
is($x, ${thaw freeze \$x}, "round trip one unicode character");
# Long scalar
$x = join '', map {chr $_} (0..1023);
is($x, ${thaw freeze \$x}, "round trip Unicode string");
# Char in the range 127-255 (probably) in utf8. This just won't work for
# EBCDIC for early Perls.
$x = ($] lt 5.007_003) ? chr(175) : chr(utf8::unicode_to_native(175))
. chr (256);
chop $x;
is($x, ${thaw freeze \$x}, "round strip a 128-255 character");
# Storable needs to cope if a frozen string happens to be internal utf8
# encoded
$x = chr 256;
my $data = freeze \$x;
is($x, ${thaw $data}, "sanity check for upgraded frozen data");
$data .= chr 256;
chop $data;
is($x, ${thaw $data}, "test for upgraded frozen data");
$data .= chr 256;
# This definitely isn't valid
eval {thaw $data};
like($@, qr/corrupt.*characters outside/, "check error handling for added 256 code point");
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