Test2::Compare::Meta(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Test2::Compare::Meta(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Test2::Compare::Meta - Check library for meta-checks

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Sometimes in a deep comparison you want to run extra checks against an item down the chain. This library allows you to write a check that verifies several attributes of an item.

# [DEFINED CHECKS](#DEFINED_CHECKS)

[blessed](#blessed)

Lets you check that an item is blessed, and that it is blessed into the expected class.

[reftype](#reftype)

Lets you check the reftype of the item.

[isa](#isa)

Lets you check if the item is an instance of the expected class.

[this](#this)

Lets you check the item itself.

[size](#size)

Lets you check the size of the item. For an arrayref this is the number of elements. For a hashref this is the number of keys. For everything else this is undef.

# [SOURCE](#SOURCE)

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at *https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/*.

# [MAINTAINERS](#MAINTAINERS)

[Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>](#Chad)

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

[Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>](#Chad~2)

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

Copyright Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

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

See *http://dev.perl.org/licenses/*

2026-09-04 perl v5.44.0

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Source: https://github.com/Test-More/test-more