perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
-
=head1 THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
-Many modules are included the Perl distribution. These are described
+Many modules are included in the Perl distribution. These are described
below, and all end in F<.pm>. You may discover compiled library
-file (usually ending in F<.so>) or small pieces of modules to be
+files (usually ending in F<.so>) or small pieces of modules to be
autoloaded (ending in F<.al>); these were automatically generated
by the installation process. You may also discover files in the
library directory that end in either F<.pl> or F<.ph>. These are
=item bigint
-Transparent big integer support for Perl
+Transparent BigInteger support for Perl
=item bignum
=item bigrat
-Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
+Transparent BigNumber/BigRationale support for Perl
=item blib
Request less of something from the compiler
+=item lib
+
+Manipulate @INC at compile time
+
=item locale
Use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads from perl
+=item threads::shared
+
+Perl extension for sharing data structures between threads
+
=item utf8
Enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code
manner with respect to namespace pollution because they use the
Exporter module. See their own documentation for details.
+It's possible that not all modules listed below are installed on your
+system. For example, the GDBM_File module will not be installed if you
+don't have the gdbm library.
+
=over 12
=item AnyDBM_File
Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
+=item Data::Dumper
+
+Stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and C<eval>
+
+=item Devel::DProf
+
+A Perl code profiler
+
+=item Devel::Peek
+
+A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
+
=item Devel::SelfStubber
Generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
Modules that calculate message digests
+=item Digest::MD5
+
+Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
+
=item DirHandle
Supply object methods for directory handles
Provides screen dump of Perl data.
+=item DynaLoader
+
+Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
+
=item Encode
Character encodings
+=item Encode::Alias
+
+Alias definitions to encodings
+
+=item Encode::Byte
+
+Single Byte Encodings
+
+=item Encode::CJKConstants
+
+Internally used by Encode::??::ISO_2022_*
+
+=item Encode::CN
+
+China-based Chinese Encodings
+
+=item Encode::CN::HZ
+
+Internally used by Encode::CN
+
+=item Encode::Config
+
+Internally used by Encode
+
+=item Encode::EBCDIC
+
+EBCDIC Encodings
+
+=item Encode::Encoder
+
+Object Oriented Encoder
+
+=item Encode::Encoding
+
+Encode Implementation Base Class
+
+=item Encode::Guess
+
+Guesses encoding from data
+
+=item Encode::JP
+
+Japanese Encodings
+
+=item Encode::JP::H2Z
+
+Internally used by Encode::JP::2022_JP*
+
+=item Encode::JP::JIS7
+
+Internally used by Encode::JP
+
+=item Encode::KR
+
+Korean Encodings
+
+=item Encode::KR::2022_KR
+
+Internally used by Encode::KR
+
+=item Encode::MIME::Header
+
+MIME 'B' and 'Q' header encoding
+
+=item Encode::PerlIO
+
+A detailed document on Encode and PerlIO
+
+=item Encode::Supported
+
+Encodings supported by Encode
+
+=item Encode::Symbol
+
+Symbol Encodings
+
+=item Encode::TW
+
+Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
+
+=item Encode::Unicode
+
+Various Unicode Transformation Formats
+
=item English
Use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
Traverse a directory tree.
+=item File::Glob
+
+Perl extension for BSD glob routine
+
=item File::Path
Create or remove directory trees
Simplified source filtering
+=item Filter::Util::Call
+
+Perl Source Filter Utility Module
+
=item FindBin
Locate directory of original perl script
+=item GDBM_File
+
+Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
+
=item Getopt::Long
Extended processing of command line options
Tags and names for human languages
+=item I18N::Langinfo
+
+Query locale information
+
=item IO
Load various IO modules
+=item IO::Dir
+
+Supply object methods for directory handles
+
+=item IO::File
+
+Supply object methods for filehandles
+
+=item IO::Handle
+
+Supply object methods for I/O handles
+
+=item IO::Pipe
+
+Supply object methods for pipes
+
+=item IO::Poll
+
+Object interface to system poll call
+
+=item IO::Seekable
+
+Supply seek based methods for I/O objects
+
+=item IO::Select
+
+OO interface to the select system call
+
+=item IO::Socket
+
+Object interface to socket communications
+
+=item IO::Socket::INET
+
+Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
+
+=item IO::Socket::UNIX
+
+Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
+
=item IPC::Open2
Open a process for both reading and writing
Open a process for reading, writing, and error handling
+=item IPC::SysV
+
+SysV IPC constants
+
+=item IPC::SysV::Msg
+
+SysV Msg IPC object class
+
+=item IPC::SysV::Semaphore
+
+SysV Semaphore IPC object class
+
+=item List::Util
+
+A selection of general-utility list subroutines
+
=item Locale::Constants
Constants for Locale codes
ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
+=item MIME::Base64
+
+Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
+
+=item MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint
+
+Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable strings
+
=item Math::BigFloat
Arbitrary size floating point math package
Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
+=item Math::BigInt::Scalar
+
+Pure Perl module to test Math::BigInt with scalars
+
=item Math::BigRat
-Arbitrarily big rationals
+Arbitrarily big rationales
=item Math::Complex
On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space
+=item PerlIO::encoding
+
+Encoding layer
+
+=item PerlIO::scalar
+
+Support module for in-memory IO.
+
+=item PerlIO::via
+
+Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
+
=item PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint
PerlIO layer for quoted-printable strings
Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
+=item Scalar::Util
+
+A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines
+
=item Search::Dict
Search for key in dictionary file
Manipulate Perl symbols and their names
+=item Sys::Hostname
+
+Try every conceivable way to get hostname
+
+=item Sys::Syslog
+
+Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
+
=item Term::ANSIColor
Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
=item Term::ReadLine
-Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
+Perl interface to various C<readline> packages.
=item Test
Thread-safe semaphores
+=item Thread::Signal
+
+Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably (for old code)
+
+=item Thread::Specific
+
+Thread-specific keys
+
=item Tie::Array
Base class for tied arrays
Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
+=item Time::HiRes
+
+High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers
+
=item Time::Local
Efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
Unicode Collation Algorithm
+=item Unicode::Normalize
+
+Unicode Normalization Forms
+
=item Unicode::UCD
Unicode character database
Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
+=item XS::APItest
+
+Test the perl C API
+
+=item XS::Typemap
+
+Module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
+
+=item XSLoader
+
+Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
+
=back
To find out I<all> modules installed on your system, including
for adequate testing and configuration across the multitude of
platforms on which Perl was beta-tested. You are encouraged to
look for them on CPAN (described below), or using web search engines
-like Alta Vista or Deja News.
+like Alta Vista or Google.
=head1 CPAN
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