#!./perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 9; use List::Util qw(sample); { my @items = sample 3, 1 .. 10; is( scalar @items, 3, 'returns correct count when plentiful' ); @items = sample 10, 1 .. 10; is( scalar @items, 10, 'returns correct count when exact' ); @items = sample 20, 1 .. 10; is( scalar @items, 10, 'returns correct count when short' ); } { my @items = sample 5, 1 .. 5; is_deeply( [ sort { $a <=> $b } @items ], [ 1 .. 5 ], 'returns a permutation of the input list when exact' ); } { # These two seeds happen to give different results for me, but there is the # smallest 1-in-2**48 chance that they happen to agree on some platform. If # so then pick a different seed value. srand 1234; my $x = join "", sample 3, 'a'..'z'; srand 5678; my $y = join "", sample 3, 'a'..'z'; isnt( $x, $y, 'returns different result on different random seed' ); srand; } { my @nums = ( 1..5 ); sample 5, @nums; is_deeply( \@nums, [ 1..5 ], 'sample does not mutate passed array' ); } { my $destroyed_count; sub Guardian::DESTROY { $destroyed_count++ } my @ret = sample 3, map { bless [], "Guardian" } 1 .. 10; is( $destroyed_count, 7, 'the 7 unselected items were destroyed' ); @ret = (); is( $destroyed_count, 10, 'all the items were destroyed' ); } { local $List::Util::RAND = sub { 4/10 }; is( join( "", sample 5, 'A'..'Z' ), join( "", sample 5, 'A'..'Z' ), 'rigged rand() yields predictable output' ); }