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#!/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");