#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Fatal qw(open); use Test::More tests => 2; use constant NO_SUCH_FILE => "xyzzy_this_file_is_not_here"; eval { open(my $fh, '<', NO_SUCH_FILE); }; my $old_msg = qr{Can't open\(GLOB\(0x[0-9a-f]+\), <, xyzzy_this_file_is_not_here\): .* at \(eval \d+\)(?:\[.*?\])? line \d+\.?\s+main::__ANON__\('?GLOB\(0x[0-9a-f]+\)'?,\s*['"]<['"],\s*['"]xyzzy_this_file_is_not_here['"]\) called at \S+ line \d+\s+eval \Q{...}\E called at \S+ line \d+}; like($@,$old_msg,"Backwards compat ugly messages"); is(ref($@),"", "Exception is a string, not an object");