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
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
Provide framework for multiple DBMs
+=item Attribute::Handlers
+
+Simpler definition of attribute handlers
+
=item AutoLoader
Load subroutines only on demand
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
=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
Article about software localization
+=item Locale::Script
+
+ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
+
=item Math::BigFloat
Arbitrary size floating point math package
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 Net::POP3
-Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081)
+Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
=item Net::Ping
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
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