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| AnyDBM_File | provide framework for multiple DBMs | 1.00 | |
| AutoLoader | load subroutines only on demand | 5.60 | |
| AutoSplit | split a package for autoloading | 1.04 | |
| B | The Perl Compiler | 1.02 | |
| B::Asmdata | Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate bytecode | 1.01 | |
| B::Assembler | Assemble Perl bytecode | 0.07 | |
| B::Bblock | Walk basic blocks | 1.02 | |
| B::Bytecode | Perl compiler's bytecode backend | 1.01 | |
| B::C | Perl compiler's C backend | 1.02 | |
| B::CC | Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend | 1.00 | |
| B::Concise | Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops | 0.60 | |
| B::Debug | Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops | 1.01 | |
| B::Deparse | Perl compiler backend to produce perl code | 0.66 | |
| B::Disassembler | Disassemble Perl bytecode | 1.03 | |
| B::Lint | Perl lint | 1.02 | |
| B::Showlex | Show lexical variables used in functions or files | 1.00 | |
| B::Stackobj | Helper module for CC backend | 1.00 | |
| B::Stash | show what stashes are loaded | 1.00 | |
| B::Terse | Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops | 1.02 | |
| B::Xref | Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs | 1.01 | |
| Benchmark | benchmark running times of Perl code | 1.06 | |
| ByteLoader | load byte compiled perl code | 0.05 | |
| Carp | 1.02 | ||
| Class::Struct | declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes | 0.63 | |
| DB | programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft, subject to change) | 1.0 | |
| DBM_Filter | Filter DBM keys/values | 0.01 | |
| DBM_Filter::compress | 0.01 | ||
| DBM_Filter::encode | 0.01 | ||
| DBM_Filter::int32 | 0.01 | ||
| DBM_Filter::null | 0.01 | ||
| DBM_Filter::utf8 | 0.01 | ||
| Devel::DProf | a Perl code profiler | ||
| Devel::Peek | A data debugging tool for the XS programmer | 1.01 | |
| Devel::SelfStubber | generate stubs for a SelfLoading module | 1.03 | |
| DirHandle | supply object methods for directory handles | 1.00 | |
| Dumpvalue | provides screen dump of Perl data. | 1.11 | |
| English | use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables | 1.01 | |
| Env | perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or arrays | 1.00 | |
| Exporter | Implements default import method for modules | 5.58 | |
| Exporter::Heavy | Exporter guts | ||
| ExtUtils::Constant | generate XS code to import C header constants | 0.14 | |
| ExtUtils::Embed | Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications | 1.250601 | |
| ExtUtils::XSSymSet | 1.0 | ||
| Fatal | replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die | 1.03 | |
| Fcntl | load the C Fcntl.h defines | 1.05 | |
| File::Basename | 2.72 | ||
| File::CheckTree | 4.3 | ||
| File::Compare | Compare files or filehandles | 1.1003 | |
| File::Copy | Copy files or filehandles | 2.07 | |
| File::DosGlob | DOS like globbing and then some | 1.00 | |
| File::Find | Traverse a directory tree. | 1.07 | |
| File::Glob | Perl extension for BSD glob routine | 1.02 | |
| File::Path | create or remove directory trees | 1.06 | |
| File::stat | by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions | 1.00 | |
| FileCache | keep more files open than the system permits | 1.03 | |
| FileHandle | supply object methods for filehandles | 2.01 | |
| FindBin | Locate directory of original perl script | 1.44 | |
| FindExt | 1.00 | ||
| GDBM_File | Perl5 access to the gdbm library. | 1.07 | |
| Getopt::Std | 1.05 | ||
| Hash::Util | A selection of general-utility hash subroutines | 0.05 | |
| I18N::Collate | compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale | 1.00 | |
| I18N::Langinfo | query locale information | 0.02 | |
| IO | load various IO modules | 1.21 | |
| IO::Dir | supply object methods for directory handles | 1.04 | |
| IO::File | supply object methods for filehandles | 1.10 | |
| IO::Handle | supply object methods for I/O handles | 1.24 | |
| IO::Pipe | supply object methods for pipes | 1.123 | |
| IO::Poll | Object interface to system poll call | 0.06 | |
| IO::Seekable | supply seek based methods for I/O objects | 1.09 | |
| IO::Select | OO interface to the select system call | 1.16 | |
| IO::Socket | Object interface to socket communications | 1.28 | |
| IO::Socket::INET | Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets | 1.27 | |
| IO::Socket::UNIX | Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets | 1.21 | |
| IPC::Msg | SysV Msg IPC object class | 1.02 | |
| IPC::Open2 | open a process for both reading and writing | 1.01 | |
| IPC::Open3 | open a process for reading, writing, and error handling | 1.0106 | |
| IPC::Semaphore | SysV Semaphore IPC object class | 1.02 | |
| IPC::SysV | SysV IPC constants | 1.04 | |
| JNI | Perl encapsulation of the Java Native Interface | 0.2 | |
| JPL::AutoLoader | |||
| JPL::Class | |||
| JPL::Compile | |||
| Maintainers | |||
| Math::Complex | complex numbers and associated mathematical functions | 1.34 | |
| Math::Trig | trigonometric functions | 1.02 | |
| NDBM_File | Tied access to ndbm files | 1.05 | |
| Net::hostent | by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() functions | 1.01 | |
| Net::netent | by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() functions | 1.00 | |
| Net::protoent | by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() functions | 1.00 | |
| Net::servent | by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() functions | 1.01 | |
| O | Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends | 1.00 | |
| ODBM_File | Tied access to odbm files | 1.05 | |
| OS2::DLL | access to DLLs with REXX calling convention. | 1.02 | |
| OS2::ExtAttr | Perl access to extended attributes. | 0.02 | |
| OS2::PrfDB | Perl extension for access to OS/2 setting database. | 0.03 | |
| OS2::Process | exports constants for system() call, and process control on OS2. | 1.01 | |
| OS2::REXX | access to DLLs with REXX calling convention and REXX runtime. | 1.02 | |
| Opcode | Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code | 1.05 | |
| POSIX | Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1 | 1.08 | |
| PerlIO | On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space | 1.03 | |
| PerlIO::encoding | encoding layer | 0.07 | |
| PerlIO::scalar | in-memory IO, scalar IO | 0.02 | |
| PerlIO::via | Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl | 0.02 | |
| Pod::Functions | Group Perl's functions a la perlfunc.pod | 1.02 | |
| Pod::Plainer | Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod. | 0.01 | |
| SDBM_File | Tied access to sdbm files | 1.04 | |
| Safe | Compile and execute code in restricted compartments | 2.10 | |
| Search::Dict | search for key in dictionary file | 1.02 | |
| SelectSaver | save and restore selected file handle | 1.00 | |
| SelfLoader | load functions only on demand | 1.0904 | |
| Shell | run shell commands transparently within perl | 0.5.2 | |
| Socket | load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators | 1.77 | |
| Symbol | manipulate Perl symbols and their names | 1.05 | |
| Sys::Hostname | Try every conceivable way to get hostname | 1.11 | |
| Sys::Syslog | Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls | 0.05 | |
| Term::Complete | Perl word completion module | 1.401 | |
| Term::ReadLine | Perl interface to various readline packages. If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions. | 1.01 | |
| Text::Abbrev | 1.01 | ||
| Text::ParseWords | parse text into an array of tokens or array of arrays | 3.21 | |
| Text::Soundex | Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described by Knuth | 1.01 | |
| Thread | manipulate threads in Perl (for old code only) | 2.00 | |
| Thread::Queue | thread-safe queues | 2.00 | |
| Thread::Semaphore | thread-safe semaphores (5.005-threads) | 2.01 | |
| Thread::Signal | Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably (for old code) | 1.00 | |
| Thread::Specific | thread-specific keys | 1.00 | |
| Tie::Array | base class for tied arrays | 1.03 | |
| Tie::Handle | base class definitions for tied handles | 4.1 | |
| Tie::Hash | base class definitions for tied hashes | 1.01 | |
| Tie::Memoize | add data to hash when needed | 1.0 | |
| Tie::RefHash | use references as hash keys | 1.31 | |
| Tie::Scalar | base class definitions for tied scalars | 1.00 | |
| Tie::SubstrHash | Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing | 1.00 | |
| Time::gmtime | by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function | 1.02 | |
| Time::localtime | by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function | 1.02 | |
| Time::tm | internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime | 1.00 | |
| UNIVERSAL | base class for ALL classes (blessed references) | 1.01 | |
| Unicode::UCD | Unicode character database | 0.22 | |
| User::grent | by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() functions | 1.00 | |
| User::pwent | by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions | 1.00 | |
| VMS::DCLsym | Perl extension to manipulate DCL symbols | 1.02 | |
| VMS::Filespec | convert between VMS and Unix file specification syntax | 1.11 | |
| VMS::Stdio | standard I/O functions via VMS extensions | 2.3 | |
| Win32 | Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions | 0.23 | |
| XS::APItest | Test the perl C API | 0.03 | |
| XS::Typemap | module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl | 0.01 | |
| attributes | get/set subroutine or variable attributes | 0.06 | |
| attrs | set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) | 1.01 | |
| autouse | postpone load of modules until a function is used | 1.03 | |
| base | Establish IS-A relationship with base classes at compile time | 2.05 | |
| blib | Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package | 1.02 | |
| bytes | Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics | 1.01 | |
| charnames | define character names for \N{named} string literal escapes | 1.03 | |
| constant | Perl pragma to declare constants | 1.04 | |
| diagnostics | produce verbose warning diagnostics | 1.12 | |
| fields | compile-time class fields | 2.03 | |
| filetest | Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators | 1.01 | |
| integer | Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating point | 1.00 | |
| less | perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler | 0.01 | |
| locale | Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations | 1.00 | |
| open | perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output | 1.03 | |
| ops | Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling | 1.00 | |
| overload | Package for overloading perl operations | 1.01 | |
| re | Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour | 0.04 | |
| sigtrap | Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling | 1.02 | |
| sort | perl pragma to control sort() behaviour | 1.02 | |
| strict | Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs | 1.03 | |
| subs | Perl pragma to predeclare sub names | 1.00 | |
| threads | Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads from perl | 1.03 | |
| threads::shared | Perl extension for sharing data structures between threads | 0.92 | |
| utf8 | Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code | 1.03 | |
| vars | Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete) | 1.01 | |
| vmsish | Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features | 1.01 | |
| warnings | Perl pragma to control optional warnings | 1.03 | |
| warnings::register | warnings import function | 1.00 |
| $orig | $flavor   |
| Carp::Heavy | heavy machinery, no user serviceable parts inside   |
| Config | access Perl configuration information   |
| DynaLoader | Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code   |
| Errno | System errno constants   |
| ExtUtils::Miniperl | write the C code for perlmain.c   |
| Locale::Maketext | framework for localization   |
| Pumpkin | Notes on handling the Perl Patch Pumpkin And Porting Perl   |
| README.BS2000 | building and installing Perl for BS2000.   |
| README.aix | Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems   |
| README.apollo | Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS   |
| README.beos | Perl version 5 on BeOS   |
| README.cygwin | Perl for Cygwin   |
| README.epoc | Perl for EPOC   |
| README.freebsd | Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems   |
| README.hints |   |
| README.hpux | Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX) systems   |
| README.hurd | Perl version 5 on Hurd   |
| README.irix | Perl version 5 on Irix systems   |
| README.machten | Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems   |
| README.macos | Perl under Mac OS (Classic)   |
| README.macosx | Perl under Mac OS X   |
| README.mint | Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT   |
| README.mpeix | Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE   |
| README.os390 | building and installing Perl for OS/390 and z/OS   |
| README.os400 | Perl version 5 on OS/400   |
| README.qnx | Perl version 5 on QNX   |
| README.solaris | Perl version 5 on Solaris systems   |
| README.tru64 | Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems   |
| README.vmesa | building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.   |
| README.vms | Configuring, building, testing, and installing perl on VMS   |
| README.vos | Perl for Stratus VOS   |
| Test::Tutorial | A tutorial about writing really basic tests   |
| Tutorial | Perl and Java   |
| VMS::XSSymSet | keep sets of symbol names palatable to the VMS linker   |
| XSLoader | Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code   |
| a2p | Awk to Perl translator   |
| abbrev | create an abbreviation table from a list   |
| buildext.pl | build extensions   |
| c2ph | Dump C structures as generated from cc -g -S stabs   |
| carp | warn of errors (from perspective of caller)   |
| dprofpp | display perl profile data   |
| emacs/cperl-mode.el |   |
| exetype | Change executable subsystem type between "Console" and "Windows"   |
| ext/XS/Typemap/Typemap.xs |   |
| ext/threads/shared/shared.xs |   |
| fileparse | split a pathname into pieces   |
| find2perl | translate find command lines to Perl code   |
| getopts | Process single-character switches with switch clustering   |
| h2ph | convert .h C header files to .ph Perl header files   |
| h2xs | convert .h C header files to Perl extensions   |
| installhtml | converts a collection of POD pages to HTML format.   |
| lib | manipulate @INC at compile time   |
| libnetcfg | configure libnet   |
| makeaperl | create a new perl binary from static extensions   |
| patching.pod | Appropriate format for patches to the perl source tree   |
| perl | Practical Extraction and Report Language   |
| perl5004delta | what's new for perl5.004   |
| perl5005delta | what's new for perl5.005   |
| perl561delta | what's new for perl v5.6.x   |
| perl56delta | what's new for perl v5.6.0   |
| perl570delta | what's new for perl v5.7.0   |
| perl571delta | what's new for perl v5.7.1   |
| perl572delta | what's new for perl v5.7.2   |
| perl573delta | what's new for perl v5.7.3   |
| perl581delta | what is new for perl v5.8.1   |
| perl582delta | what is new for perl v5.8.2   |
| perl583delta | what is new for perl v5.8.3   |
| perl584delta | what is new for perl v5.8.4   |
| perl58delta | what is new for perl v5.8.0   |
| perl5db.pl | the perl debugger   |
| perlXStut | Tutorial for writing XSUBs   |
| perlamiga | Perl under Amiga OS   |
| perlapi | autogenerated documentation for the perl public API   |
| perlapio | perl's IO abstraction interface.   |
| perlartistic | the Perl Artistic License   |
| perlbook | Perl book information   |
| perlboot | Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial   |
| perlbot | Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)   |
| perlbug | how to submit bug reports on Perl   |
| perlcall | Perl calling conventions from C   |
| perlcc | generate executables from Perl programs   |
| perlce | Perl for WinCE   |
| perlcheat | Perl 5 Cheat Sheet   |
| perlclib | Internal replacements for standard C library functions   |
| perlcn | ¼òÌåÖÐÎÄ Perl ָÄÏ   |
| perlcompile | Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator   |
| perldata | Perl data types   |
| perldbmfilter | Perl DBM Filters   |
| perldebguts | Guts of Perl debugging   |
| perldebtut | Perl debugging tutorial   |
| perldebug | Perl debugging   |
| perldgux | Perl under DG/UX.   |
| perldiag | various Perl diagnostics   |
| perldoc | Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.   |
| perldos | Perl under DOS, W31, W95.   |
| perldsc | Perl Data Structures Cookbook   |
| perlebcdic | Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms   |
| perlembed | how to embed perl in your C program   |
| perlfaq | frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2003/01/31 17:37:17 $)   |
| perlfaq1 | General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 2003/11/23 08:02:29 $)   |
| perlfaq2 | Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.25 $, $Date: 2003/10/16 04:57:38 $)   |
| perlfaq3 | Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.37 $, $Date: 2003/11/24 19:55:50 $)   |
| perlfaq4 | Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.54 $, $Date: 2003/11/30 00:50:08 $)   |
| perlfaq5 | Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.30 $, $Date: 2003/11/23 08:07:46 $)   |
| perlfaq6 | Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.20 $, $Date: 2003/01/03 20:05:28 $)   |
| perlfaq7 | General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2003/07/24 02:17:21 $)   |
| perlfaq8 | System Interaction ($Revision: 1.17 $, $Date: 2003/01/26 17:44:04 $)   |
| perlfaq9 | Networking ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2003/01/31 17:36:57 $)   |
| perlfilter | Source Filters   |
| perlfork | Perl's fork() emulation   |
| perlform | Perl formats   |
| perlfunc | Perl builtin functions   |
| perlglob.bat | a more capable perlglob.exe replacement   |
| perlgpl | the GNU General Public License, version 2   |
| perlguts | Introduction to the Perl API   |
| perlhack | How to hack at the Perl internals   |
| perlhist | the Perl history records   |
| perlintern | autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl functions   |
| perlintro | a brief introduction and overview of Perl   |
| perliol | C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.   |
| perlipc | Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)   |
| perlivp | Perl Installation Verification Procedure   |
| perljp | ÆüËܸì Perl ¥¬¥¤¥É   |
| perlko | Perl°ú Çѱ¹¾î ÀÎÄڵù   |
| perllexwarn | Perl Lexical Warnings   |
| perllocale | Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization)   |
| perllol | Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl   |
| perlmod | Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)   |
| perlmodinstall | Installing CPAN Modules   |
| perlmodlib | constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones   |
| perlmodstyle | Perl module style guide   |
| perlnetware | Perl for NetWare   |
| perlnewmod | preparing a new module for distribution   |
| perlnumber | semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl   |
| perlobj | Perl objects   |
| perlop | Perl operators and precedence   |
| perlopentut | tutorial on opening things in Perl   |
| perlos2 | Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.   |
| perlothrtut | old tutorial on threads in Perl   |
| perlpacktut | tutorial on pack and unpack   |
| perlplan9 | Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl   |
| perlpod | the Plain Old Documentation format   |
| perlpodspec | Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes   |
| perlport | Writing portable Perl   |
| perlre | Perl regular expressions   |
| perlref | Perl references and nested data structures   |
| perlreftut | Mark's very short tutorial about references   |
| perlrequick | Perl regular expressions quick start   |
| perlreref | Perl Regular Expressions Reference   |
| perlretut | Perl regular expressions tutorial   |
| perlrun | how to execute the Perl interpreter   |
| perlsec | Perl security   |
| perlstyle | Perl style guide   |
| perlsub | Perl subroutines   |
| perlsyn | Perl syntax   |
| perlthrtut | tutorial on threads in Perl   |
| perltie | how to hide an object class in a simple variable   |
| perltoc | perl documentation table of contents   |
| perltodo | Perl TO-DO List   |
| perltooc | Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl   |
| perltoot | Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl   |
| perltrap | Perl traps for the unwary   |
| perltw | ¥¿Å餤¤å Perl «ü«n   |
| perlunicode | Unicode support in Perl   |
| perluniintro | Perl Unicode introduction   |
| perlutil | utilities packaged with the Perl distribution   |
| perluts | Perl under UTS   |
| perlvar | Perl predefined variables   |
| perlvms | VMS-specific documentation for Perl   |
| perlwin32 | Perl under Windows   |
| perlxs | XS language reference manual   |
| pl2bat | wrap perl code into a batch file   |
| pl2pm | Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules.   |
| pod2html | convert .pod files to .html files   |
| pod2latex | convert pod documentation to latex format   |
| psed | a stream editor   |
| repository | Using the Perl repository   |
| runperl.bat | "universal" batch file to run perl scripts   |
| smtp.self | mail a message via smtp   |
| sort_perldiag.pl | Sort warning and error messages in perldiag.pod   |
| valgrindpp.pl | A post processor for make test.valgrind   |
| validate | run many filetest checks on a tree   |
| xsubpp | compiler to convert Perl XS code into C code   |