---
name: "Test2::Compare::Meta"
section: "3p"
platform: "openbsd"
package: "man"
version: "8.0-current-20261101"
release: "OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01)"
platforms: ["openbsd"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Test2::Compare::Meta"
---

# Test2::Compare::Meta(3p)

Check library for meta-checks

## NAME

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

## 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

- blessed

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

- reftype

  Lets you check the reftype of the item.

- isa

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

- this

  Lets you check the item itself.

- 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

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

## MAINTAINERS

- Chad Granum \<exodist@cpan.org\>

  ## AUTHORS

- Chad Granum \<exodist@cpan.org\>

  ## 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/*