Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

centralised and distributed collection of modules

http://www.cpan.org/

4.5 Go, more than 13,000 modules, more than 6,000 authors

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« CPAN is the language, Perl is just its syntax » -- Audrey Tang

true strength of Perl

knowing the good modules

Getopt::Long

Pod::Usage

    my %options = (
         debug => 0,
    );

    GetOptions(\%options, qw{
        help|h!  version|V!
        debug|d!  config|c=s
    }) or pod2usage(0);

    pod2usage({ -verbose => 2, -exitval => 0, -noperldoc => 1 })
        if $options{help};

Proc::Daemon

IPC::Run

    my @cmd = qw(ps auwx);
    run \@cmd, \$input, \$output, \$errors or die "$cmd[0]: $?"

List::Util

    first max maxstr min minstr reduce shuffle sum

List::MoreUtils

    any all none notall each_array pairwise natatime mesh zip uniq minmax

Regexp::Common

    while (<>) {
        /$RE{num}{real}/ and print "got a number";
        /$RE{net}{IPv4}/ and print "got an IP address";
    }

Regexp::Assemble

Text::Match::FastAlternatives

Time::HiRes

Date::Parse

DateTime

DateTime::Set, DateTime::Span

DateTime::Calendar:: Chinese, Christian, Coptic, FrenchRevolutionary, Hebrew, Japanese, Mayan, Pataphysical

bignum, bigint, bigrat

PDL (Perl Data Language == MatLab in Perl)

Archiving

• Archive::Tar, Archive::Zip, Compress:Zlib, Compress:Bzip2

Paths

• File::Spec, Path::Class

• File::Find::Rule, File::Next, File::Wildcard

• File::HomeDir, File::ShareDir

Content

• File::Slurp, File::Tail, File::Temp

Class::Accessor

Class::Std, Class::InsideOut, Object::InsideOut

Moose, Coat

    package CheckingAccount;
        use Moose;
        
        extends 'BankAccount';
        
        has 'overdraft_account' => (isa => 'BankAccount', is => 'rw');        
        
        before 'withdraw' => sub {
            ...
        };

POE (Perl Object Environment)

» http://poe.perl.org

XML::LibXML, XML::LibXSLT

    my $parser = XML::LibXML->new;
    my $doc = $parse->parse_file($file);

    my ($node) = $doc->findnodes("/root/path/node[1]");

XML::SAX

XML::Twig

XML::Tiny

Data::Dumper, Storable

YAML, YAML::Syck, YAML::XS

    YAML::DumpFile($file, \%complex_structure);
    my $struct = YAML::LoadFile($file);

JSON, JSON::Syck, JSON::XS

    my $struct = from_json( $request->content );

    $response->add_content( to_json(\%data) );

MIME::Lite, MIME::Parser, Mail::Box

Email::Simple, Email::MIME, Email::Folder all the modules from the Perl Email Project

Net::SMTP, Net::POP3, Net::IMAP, IMAP::Admin

LWP::UserAgent, LWP::Simple

    my $page = get($url);

LWP::Parallel, HTTP::Async

WWW::Mechanize

Web::Scraper

HTTP::Daemon

HTTP::Server::Simple

HTTP::Server::Brick

    my $server = HTTP::Server::Brick->new( port => 8888 );
    $server->mount("/files" => { path => "/path/to/files" });
    $server->mount("/user"  => { handler => \&process_user });
    $server->start;

CGI, CGI::Simple, CGI::PathInfo

HTML::Parser

HTML::TreeBuilder

WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C

Office

• Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

• OpenOffice::OODoc, Spreadsheet::ReadSXC

• Spreadsheet::Read, Spreadsheet::Write

• PDF::API2

Images

• GD, Image::Magick, Gimp, Imager

Protocols

• Net::FTP, Net::SSH, Net::SCP, Net:LDAP, Net::NNTP, Net::RADIUS, Net::TacacsPlus, Net::SIP

• Net::DNS, Net::Ping, Net::DHCP

Low level

• Net::Pcap, Net::Frame, Net::Packet

Text::CSV_XS

DBI

MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, JDBC, ODBC, Sybase, ADO DB, Unify and much more...

DBI::Proxy, DBD::Gofer

DBIx::Simple

Tangram, Alzabo, SPOPS

Class::DBI, DBIx::Class

Rose::DB::Object, DBIx::DataModel, Fey::ORM

HTML::Template

Petal

Mason

Template Toolkit

Maypole

Catalyst

Jifty

Test::More, Test::Builder

Devel::Cover

Test::Deep, Test::LongString

Test::Exception, Test::NoWarnings

Test::MockModule, Test::MockObject

Test::Class, Test::Unit

Test::LectroTest

Module::Starter

ack

Perl::Critic

Perl::Tidy

XXX

Devel::SimpleTrace

Devel::Graph

Devel::TraceLoad, Devel::TraceUse

Devel::LeakTrace

Devel::ebug

Languages

• Inline : C, Java, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Befunge, Lua

External libraries

• XS

• Devel::PPPort

• SWIG

• P5NCI

Graphical interfaces

• Tk, Gtk, WxWidgets, Qt, Prima

• GUI natives : Win32, Aqua (Mac OS X), X11

Native OS API

• Mac::Carbon, Mac::Glue

• Win32, Win32::OLE, W2RK::WMI

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