Turn on
$Data::Dumper::Terse and only use
eval STRING as
eval BLOCK is not what you want e.g
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Test::More qw(no_plan);
package Foo;
sub new {bless {'a' => 1}, $_[0]};
package main;
my $foo = Foo->new();
my $foo_dumped_evaled;
$Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
$foo_dumped_evaled = eval(Dumper($foo));
isa_ok($foo_dumped_evaled,'Foo'); #fails
$foo_dumped_evaled = eval{Dumper($foo)};
isa_ok($foo_dumped_evaled,'Foo'); #fails
print Dumper($foo);
__output__
ok 1 - The object isa Foo
not ok 2 - The object isa Foo
# Failed test (pmsopw_478513.pl at line 19)
# The object isn't a reference
bless( {
'a' => 1
}, 'Foo' )
1..2
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 2.