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+# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class PerlStringApprox(PerlPackage):
+    """Perl extension for approximate matching (fuzzy matching)"""
+
+    homepage = "https://metacpan.org/pod/String::Approx"
+    url = "https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/String-Approx-3.28.tar.gz"
+
+    maintainers("EbiArnie")
+
+    version("3.28", sha256="43201e762d8699cb0ac2c0764a5454bdc2306c0771014d6c8fba821480631342")
+
+    def test_use(self):
+        """Test 'use module'"""
+        options = ["-we", 'use strict; use String::Approx; print("OK\n")']
+
+        perl = self.spec["perl"].command
+        out = perl(*options, output=str.split, error=str.split)
+        assert "OK" in out