The Perl Standard Library

• autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
• AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
• AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
• AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
• base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
• blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
• Benchmark - benchmark running times of code
• CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
• CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
• CGI::Switch - Try more than one constructors and return the first object available
• CGI::Apache - Make things work with CGI.pm against Perl-Apache API
• CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
• CGI::Carp - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD error log
• CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
• CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
• CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS module
• CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
• carp - warn of errors
• Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
• Config - access Perl configuration information
• constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
• getcwd - get pathname of current working directory
• Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
• diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics
• DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
• English - use nice English names for ugly punctuation variables
• Env - perl module that imports environment variables
• Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
• ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.
• ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
• ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
• ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
• ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
• ExtUtils::writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
• ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
• ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
• ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
• ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
• ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic extension
• Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
• fields - compile-time class fields
• fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
• validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
• File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
• File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
• File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
• File::Find - traverse a file tree
• File::Path - create or remove a series of directories
• File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
• File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for MacOS
• File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
• File::Spec::Unix - methods used by File::Spec
• File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
• File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
• File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat functions
• FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
• FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
• FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
• GetOptions - extended processing of command line options
• getopt - Process single-character switches with switch clustering
• I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale
• integer - Perl pragma to compute arithmetic in integer instead of double
• open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
• open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error handling
• less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
• lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
• locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
• Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
• Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
• Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary length float math package
• Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
• Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet* functions
• Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost* functions
• Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto* functions
• Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv* functions
• Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
• overload - Package for overloading perl operations
• Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
• Pod::Text - convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
• Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
• look - search for key in dictionary file
• SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
• SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
• Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
• sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
• strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
• subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
• Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
• syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog calls
• Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
• Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
• Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various readline packages
• Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
• Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
• Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
• Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described by Knuth
• Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of arrays
• Text::abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
• Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand
• Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
• Tie::Handle - base class definitions for tied handles
• Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
• Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied scalars
• Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
• Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
• Tie::StdHash - base class definitions for tied hashes
• Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime function
• Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime function
• Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
• Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
• UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes
• User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr* functions
• User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw* functions
• vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names

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  Last modified: Mon Aug 24 14:30:25 1998