How to skip tests with Test::More

The following piece of code demonstrates how, using Test::More, to skip some tests for a particular Perl version. In this case, it tests for a version of 5.16. The Perl version variable is stored in $[.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Test::More tests => 2;
print "$]\n";
SKIP: {
    skip "wrong version", 1 unless $] >= 5.016;
    ok (1, "Skip");
};
ok (1, "Ok");

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Run with Perl 5.8.9, it produces the following output:

1..2
5.008009
ok 1 # skip wrong version
ok 2 - Ok