Get/set subroutine or variable attributes
-=item attrs
-
-Set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
-
=item autouse
Postpone load of modules until a function is used
Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
+=item bigint
+
+Transparent big integer support for Perl
+
+=item bignum
+
+Transparent BigNumber support for Perl
+
+=item bigrat
+
+Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
+
=item blib
Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
Control the filetest permission operators
+=item if
+
+C<use> a Perl module if a condition holds
+
=item integer
Use integer arithmetic instead of floating point
Set default disciplines for input and output
-=item ops
-
-Restrict unsafe operations when compiling
-
=item overload
Package for overloading perl operations
Predeclare sub names
-=item threads
-
-Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads from perl
-
=item utf8
Enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code
Split a package for autoloading
-=item B
-
-The Perl Compiler
-
-=item B::Asmdata
-
-Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate bytecode
-
-=item B::Assembler
-
-Assemble Perl bytecode
-
-=item B::Bblock
-
-Walk basic blocks
-
-=item B::Bytecode
-
-Perl compiler's bytecode backend
-
-=item B::C
-
-Perl compiler's C backend
-
-=item B::CC
-
-Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
-
-=item B::Concise
-
-Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
-
-=item B::Debug
-
-Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
-
-=item B::Deparse
-
-Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
-
-=item B::Disassembler
-
-Disassemble Perl bytecode
-
-=item B::Lint
-
-Perl lint
-
-=item B::Showlex
-
-Show lexical variables used in functions or files
-
-=item B::Stackobj
-
-Helper module for CC backend
-
-=item B::Stash
-
-Show what stashes are loaded
-
-=item B::Terse
-
-Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
-
-=item B::Xref
-
-Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
-
=item Benchmark
Benchmark running times of Perl code
-=item ByteLoader
-
-Load byte compiled perl code
-
=item CGI
Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
Programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft, subject to
-=item DB_File
-
-Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
-
=item Devel::SelfStubber
Generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
Provides screen dump of Perl data.
-=item Encode
-
-Character encodings
-
-=item Encode::EncodeFormat
-
-The format of encoding tables of the Encode extension
-
-=item Encode::Tcl
-
-Tcl encodings
-
=item English
Use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
Determine libraries to use and how to use them
+=item ExtUtils::MM_BeOS
+
+Methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
=item ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin
Methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
-=item Fcntl
-
-Load the C Fcntl.h defines
-
=item File::Basename
Split a pathname into pieces
=item File::Find
-Traverse a file tree
+Traverse a directory tree.
=item File::Path
Portably perform operations on file names
+=item File::Spec::Cygwin
+
+Methods for Cygwin file specs
+
=item File::Spec::Epoc
Methods for Epoc file specs
Process single-character switches with switch clustering
+=item Hash::Util
+
+A selection of general-utility hash subroutines
+
=item I18N::Collate
Compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale
Tags and names for human languages
-=item IO
-
-Load various IO modules
-
=item IPC::Open2
Open a process for both reading and writing
Article about software localization
+=item Locale::Script
+
+ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
+
=item Math::BigFloat
Arbitrary size floating point math package
Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
+=item Math::BigRat
+
+Arbitrarily big rationals
+
=item Math::Complex
Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
Glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for Storable use
-=item Memoize::Saves
-
-Plug-in module to specify which return values should be memoized
-
=item Memoize::Storable
Store Memoized data in Storable database
-=item NDBM_File
-
-Tied access to ndbm files
-
=item NEXT
Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
=item Net::POP3
-Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081)
+Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
=item Net::Ping
By-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() functions
-=item O
-
-Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
-
-=item ODBM_File
-
-Tied access to odbm files
-
-=item Opcode
-
-Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
-
-=item POSIX
-
-Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
-
=item PerlIO
On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space
Find POD documents in directory trees
+=item Pod::Functions
+
+Group Perl's functions a la perlfunc.pod
+
=item Pod::Html
Module to convert pod files to HTML
Test of various basic POD features in translators.
-=item SDBM_File
-
-Tied access to sdbm files
-
-=item Safe
-
-Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
-
=item Search::Dict
Search for key in dictionary file
Run shell commands transparently within perl
-=item Socket
-
-Load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators
-
-=item Storable
-
-Persistency for perl data structures
-
=item Switch
A switch statement for Perl
Run perl standard test scripts with statistics
+=item Test::Harness::Assert
+
+Simple assert
+
+=item Test::Harness::Iterator
+
+Internal Test::Harness Iterator
+
+=item Test::Harness::Straps
+
+Detailed analysis of test results
+
=item Test::More
Yet another framework for writing test scripts
Base class for tied arrays
+=item Tie::File
+
+Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
+
=item Tie::Handle
Base class definitions for tied handles
Base class definitions for tied hashes
+=item Tie::Memoize
+
+Add data to hash when needed
+
=item Tie::RefHash
Use references as hash keys
replicated trove of Perl materials, including documentation, style
guides, tricks and traps, alternate ports to non-Unix systems and
occasional binary distributions for these. Search engines for
-CPAN can be found at http://cpan.perl.com/ and at
-http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_perl/cpan-search.pl .
+CPAN can be found at http://www.cpan.org/
Most importantly, CPAN includes around a thousand unbundled modules,
some of which require a C compiler to build. Major categories of
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/programming/perl/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.mweb.co.za/pub/mirrors/cpan/
ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/CPAN/
- ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/CPAN/CPAN/
=back
ftp://freesoft.cei.gov.cn/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
http://www2.linuxforum.net/mirror/CPAN/
- http://CPAN.pacific.net.hk/
- ftp://ftp.pacific.net.hk/pub/mirror/CPAN/
http://cpan.shellhung.org/
ftp://ftp.shellhung.org/pub/CPAN
http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/Perl/
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/Perl/
ftp://ftp.meisei-u.ac.jp/pub/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.ayamura.org/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.dti.ad.jp/pub/lang/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/
http://ftp.kornet.net/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.kornet.net/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.nuri.net/pub/CPAN/
+ http://ftp.xgate.co.kr/cpan/
+ ftp://ftp.xgate.co.kr/pub/mirror/CPAN
=item *
Taiwan
- ftp://coda.nctu.edu.tw/UNIX/perl/CPAN
ftp://ftp.ee.ncku.edu.tw/pub/perl/CPAN/
ftp://ftp1.sinica.edu.tw/pub1/perl/CPAN/
http://ftp.tku.edu.tw/pub/CPAN/
Thailand
- http://download.nectec.or.th/CPAN/
- ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/languages/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.cs.riubon.ac.th/pub/mirrors/CPAN/
=back
Bulgaria
- ftp://ftp.ntrl.net/pub/mirrors/CPAN/
+ http://cpan.lirex.net/
+ ftp://ftp.lirex.net/pub/mirrors/CPAN
=item *
=item *
-England
-
- http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN
- ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
- http://cpan.crazygreek.co.uk
- ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/CPAN/
- ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
- ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/CPAN/
- ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/CPAN/
- http://mirror.uklinux.net/CPAN/
- ftp://mirror.uklinux.net/pub/CPAN/
- ftp://usit.shef.ac.uk/pub/packages/CPAN/
-
-=item *
-
Estonia
ftp://ftp.ut.ee/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
France
- ftp://cpan.ftp.worldonline.fr/pub/CPAN/
http://cpan.mirrors.easynet.fr/
ftp://cpan.mirrors.easynet.fr/pub/ftp.cpan.org/
ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/perl/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/source/CPAN/
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/CPAN
ftp://ftp.gigabell.net/pub/CPAN/
+ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/CPAN/
+ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/CPAN/
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/pub/soft/lang/perl/CPAN/
Greece
+ ftp://ftp.acn.gr/pub/lang/perl/CPAN
ftp://ftp.forthnet.gr/pub/languages/perl/CPAN
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/perl/
http://cpan.artifact.hu/
ftp://cpan.artifact.hu/CPAN/
- http://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/CPAN/
- ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/CPAN/
+ http://ftp.kfki.hu/packages/perl/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/packages/perl/CPAN/
=item *
ftp://gusp.dyndns.org/pub/CPAN
http://softcity.iol.it/cpan
ftp://softcity.iol.it/pub/cpan
- ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/Other/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/Other/CPAN/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.unipi.it/pub/mirror/perl/CPAN/
ftp://cis.uniRoma2.it/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/CPAN_Mirror/
ftp://download.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
- http://cpan.cybercomm.nl/
- ftp://mirror.cybercomm.nl/pub/cpan/
ftp://ftp.cpan.nl/pub/CPAN/
http://www.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CPAN/
Poland
ftp://ftp.pk.edu.pl/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/
- http://www.fic.uni.lodz.pl/pub/CPAN
- ftp://ftp.fic.uni.lodz.pl/pub/CPAN
ftp://ftp.mega.net.pl/pub/mirrors/ftp.perl.com/
ftp://ftp.man.torun.pl/pub/doc/CPAN/
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.ua.pt/pub/CPAN/
ftp://perl.di.uminho.pt/pub/CPAN/
- http://cpan.ip.pt/
- ftp://cpan.ip.pt/pub/perl/
+ http://cpan.dei.uc.pt/
+ ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/CPAN
ftp://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/CPAN/
http://cpan.ip.pt/
ftp://cpan.ip.pt/pub/cpan/
Romania
- ftp://archive.logicnet.ro/mirrors/ftp.cpan.org/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.kappa.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.dntis.ro/pub/cpan/
- ftp://ftp.opsynet.com/cpan/
ftp://ftp.dnttm.ro/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.lasting.ro/pub/CPAN
ftp://ftp.timisoara.roedu.net/mirrors/CPAN/
Slovakia
- ftp://ftp.entry.sk/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
+ http://ftp.cvt.stuba.sk/pub/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.cvt.stuba.sk/pub/CPAN/
=item *
Spain
+ http://cpan.imasd.elmundo.es/
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.etse.urv.es/pub/perl/
ftp://cpan.org.ua/
ftp://ftp.perl.org.ua/pub/CPAN/
+=item *
+
+United Kingdom
+
+ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN
+ ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
+ http://cpan.teleglobe.net/
+ ftp://cpan.teleglobe.net/pub/CPAN
+ http://cpan.crazygreek.co.uk
+ ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.flirble.org/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.plig.org/pub/CPAN/
+ http://mirror.uklinux.net/CPAN/
+ ftp://mirror.uklinux.net/pub/CPAN/
+ http://cpan.mirrors.clockerz.net/
+ ftp://ftp.clockerz.net/pub/CPAN/
+ ftp://usit.shef.ac.uk/pub/packages/CPAN/
+
=back
=head2 North America
Quebec
http://cpan.mirror.smartworker.org/
- ftp://cpan.mirror.smartworker.org/pub/CPAN
=back
ftp://cpan.valueclick.com/pub/CPAN/
http://mirrors.gossamer-threads.com/CPAN
ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN/
- ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/CPAN
http://cpan.digisle.net/
ftp://cpan.digisle.net/pub/CPAN
- http://www.linuxjar.com/CPAN
- ftp://linuxjar.com/pub/CPAN
http://www.perl.com/CPAN/
http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/CPAN/
=item *
+Delaware
+
+ http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/CPAN
+ ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/CPAN
+
+=item *
+
District of Columbia
- ftp://ftp.dc.us.telia.net/pub/cpan/
+ ftp://ftp.dc.aleron.net/pub/CPAN/
=item *
Indiana
- ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/
- http://cpan.nitco.com/
- ftp://cpan.nitco.com/pub/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.uwsg.iu.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/
+ http://cpan.netnitco.net/
+ ftp://cpan.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/CPAN/
http://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/
ftp://archive.progeny.com/CPAN/
ftp://cpan.in-span.net/
ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/net/mirrors/ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/
http://cpan.mirrors.netnumina.com/
ftp://mirrors.netnumina.com/cpan/
- ftp://ftp.iguide.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/
=item *
New Jersey
ftp://ftp.cpanel.net/pub/CPAN/
+ http://cpan.teleglobe.net/
+ ftp://cpan.teleglobe.net/pub/CPAN
=item *
New York
- ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/perl/CPAN/
+ ftp://ftp.exobit.org/pub/perl/CPAN
+ http://cpan.belfry.net/
+ http://cpan.thepirtgroup.com/
+ ftp://cpan.thepirtgroup.com/
ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/CPAN/
http://www.rge.com/pub/languages/perl/
ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/languages/perl/
ftp://ftp.epix.net/pub/languages/perl/
http://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/
ftp://mirrors.phenominet.com/pub/CPAN/
+ http://cpan.pair.com/
+ ftp://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/CPAN/
=item *
Texas
http://ftp.sedl.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/
+ ftp://mirror.telentente.com/pub/CPAN
=item *
http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/lang/CPAN/
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/lang/CPAN/
+ http://perl.secsup.org/
+ ftp://perl.secsup.org/pub/perl/
+ http://mirrors.phihost.com/CPAN/
+ ftp://mirrors.phihost.com/CPAN/
ftp://ruff.cs.jmu.edu/pub/CPAN/
http://perl.Liquidation.com/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.mirrorcentral.com/pub/CPAN/
ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/CPAN/
-=back
+=item *
+
+Wisconsin
+
+ http://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/pub/CPAN/
+ ftp://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/pub/CPAN/
=back
=item *
New Zealand
+
ftp://ftp.auckland.ac.nz/pub/perl/CPAN/
=back
Chile
ftp://ftp.psinet.cl/pub/programming/perl/CPAN/
- ftp://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/lang/perl/
=back
-
For an up-to-date listing of CPAN sites,
see http://www.cpan.org/SITES or ftp://www.cpan.org/SITES .