Perl 5.6 Documentation:  Perl Modules

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AnyDBM_File provide framework for multiple DBMs Apache Perl interface to the Apache server API Apache::Constants Constants defined in apache header files Apache::Debug Utilities for debugging embedded perl code Apache::ExtUtils Utils for Apache:C/Perl glue Apache::FakeRequest fake request object for debugging Apache::File advanced functions for manipulating files at the server side Apache::Include Utilities for mod_perl/mod_include integration Apache::Leak Module for tracking memory leaks in mod_perl code Apache::Log Interface to Apache logging Apache::MyConfig build options access Apache::Options OPT_* defines from httpd_core.h Apache::PerlRun Run unaltered CGI scripts under mod_perl Apache::PerlRunXS XS implementation of Apache::PerlRun/Apache::Registry Apache::PerlSections Utilities for work with <Perl> sections Apache::RedirectLogFix Properly set redirect status for loggers Apache::Registry Run unaltered CGI scrips under mod_perl Apache::RegistryLoader Compile Apache::Registry scripts at server startup Apache::Resource Limit resources used by httpd children Apache::SIG Override apache signal handlers with Perl's Apache::SizeLimit Because size does matter. Apache::StatINC Reload %INC files when updated on disk Apache::Status Embedded interpreter status information Apache::Symbol Things for symbol things Apache::Symdump Symbol table snapshots Apache::Table Perl interface to the Apache table structure Apache::Test Facilitates testing of Apache::* modules Apache::URI URI component parsing and unparsing Apache::Util Interface to Apache C util functions Apache::httpd_conf Generate an httpd.conf file AutoLoader load subroutines only on demand AutoSplit split a package for autoloading B The Perl Compiler B::Asmdata Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate bytecode B::Assembler Assemble Perl bytecode B::Bblock Walk basic blocks B::Bytecode Perl compiler's bytecode backend B::C Perl compiler's C backend B::CC Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend B::Concise Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops B::Debug Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops B::Deparse Perl compiler backend to produce perl code B::Disassembler Disassemble Perl bytecode B::Lint Perl lint B::Showlex Show lexical variables used in functions or files B::Stackobj Helper module for CC backend B::Terse Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops B::Xref Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs Benchmark benchmark running times of Perl code Bundle::Apache Install Apache mod_perl and related modules Bundle::LWP A bundle to install all libwww-perl related modules ByteLoader load byte compiled perl code CGI Simple Common Gateway Interface Class CGI::Apache Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm CGI::Carp CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log CGI::Cookie Interface to Netscape Cookies CGI::Fast CGI Interface for Fast CGI CGI::Pretty module to produce nicely formatted HTML code CGI::Push Simple Interface to Server Push CGI::Switch Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch CGI::Util Internal utilities used by CGI module CPAN query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites CPAN::FirstTime Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization CPAN::Nox Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS module CPAN::WAIT adds commands to search a WAIT4CPAN server to the CPAN shell() Carp::Heavy Carp guts Class::Struct declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes Compress::Zlib Interface to zlib compression library Config access Perl configuration information Cwd get pathname of current working directory DB programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft, subject to change) DB_File Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x Data::Dumper stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval Devel::DProf a Perl code profiler Devel::Peek A data debugging tool for the XS programmer Devel::SelfStubber generate stubs for a SelfLoading module Digest::MD5 Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm DirHandle supply object methods for directory handles Dumpvalue provides screen dump of Perl data. DynaLoader Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code English use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables Env perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or arrays Errno System errno constants Exporter Implements default import method for modules Exporter::Heavy Exporter guts ExtUtils::Command utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc. ExtUtils::Embed Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications ExtUtils::Install install files from here to there ExtUtils::Installed Inventory management of installed modules ExtUtils::Liblist determine libraries to use and how to use them ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker ExtUtils::MM_Unix methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker ExtUtils::MM_VMS methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker ExtUtils::MM_Win32 methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker ExtUtils::MakeMaker create an extension Makefile ExtUtils::Manifest utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain write the C code for perlmain.c ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader ExtUtils::Mksymlists write linker options files for dynamic extension ExtUtils::Packlist manage .packlist files ExtUtils::testlib add blib/* directories to @INC Fatal replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die Fcntl load the C Fcntl.h defines File::Compare Compare files or filehandles File::Copy Copy files or filehandles File::DosGlob DOS like globbing and then some File::Glob Perl extension for BSD glob routine File::Path create or remove directory trees File::Spec portably perform operations on file names File::Spec::Epoc methods for Epoc file specs File::Spec::Functions 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::Temp return name and handle of a temporary file safely 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 GDBM_File Perl5 access to the gdbm library. Getopt::Long Extended processing of command line options HTML::Entities Encode or decode strings with HTML entities HTML::Filter Filter HTML text through the parser HTML::Form Class that represents HTML forms HTML::HeadParser Parse <HEAD> section of a HTML document HTML::LinkExtor Extract links from an HTML document HTML::Parser HTML parser class HTML::PullParser Alternative HTML::Parser interface HTML::Stream HTML output stream class, and some markup utilities HTML::Tagset data tables useful in parsing HTML HTML::Template Perl module to use HTML Templates from CGI scripts HTML::TokeParser Alternative HTML::Parser interface HTTP::Cookies Cookie storage and management HTTP::Daemon a simple http server class HTTP::Date date conversion routines HTTP::Headers Class encapsulating HTTP Message headers HTTP::Headers::Util Header value parsing utility functions HTTP::Message Class encapsulating HTTP messages HTTP::Request Class encapsulating HTTP Requests HTTP::Request::Common Construct common HTTP::Request objects HTTP::Response Class encapsulating HTTP Responses HTTP::Status HTTP Status code processing I18N::Collate compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale IO load various IO modules IO::Dir supply object methods for directory handles IO::File supply object methods for filehandles IO::Handle supply object methods for I/O handles IO::Pipe supply object methods for pipes IO::Poll Object interface to system poll call IO::Seekable supply seek based methods for I/O objects IO::Select OO interface to the select system call IO::Socket Object interface to socket communications IO::Socket::INET Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets IO::Socket::UNIX Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets IPC::Msg SysV Msg IPC object class IPC::Open2, open2 open a process for both reading and writing IPC::Open3, open3 open a process for reading, writing, and error handling IPC::Semaphore SysV Semaphore IPC object class IPC::SysV SysV IPC constants LWP Library for WWW access in Perl LWP::Debug debug routines for the libwww-perl library LWP::MediaTypes guess media type for a file or a URL LWP::MemberMixin Member access mixin class LWP::Protocol Base class for LWP protocols LWP::RobotUA A class for Web Robots LWP::UserAgent A WWW UserAgent class MD5 Perl interface to the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm MIME::Base64 Encoding and decoding of base64 strings MIME::QuotedPrint Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable strings Math::BigFloat Arbitrary length float math package Math::BigInt Arbitrary size integer math package NDBM_File Tied access to ndbm files Net::Cmd Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc) Net::Config Local configuration data for libnet Net::Domain Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name and domain Net::DummyInetd A dummy Inetd server Net::FTP FTP Client class Net::NNTP NNTP Client class Net::Netrc OO interface to users netrc file Net::PH CCSO Nameserver Client class Net::POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081) Net::Ping check a remote host for reachability Net::SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client Net::SNPP Simple Network Pager Protocol Client Net::Time time and daytime network client interface Net::hostent by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() functions Net::netent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() 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 O Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends ODBM_File Tied access to odbm files Opcode Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code POSIX Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1 Pod::Checker, podchecker() check pod documents for syntax errors Pod::Find find POD documents in directory trees Pod::Html module to convert pod files to HTML Pod::InputObjects objects representing POD input paragraphs, commands, etc. Pod::LaTeX Convert Pod data to formatted Latex Pod::Man Convert POD data to formatted *roff input Pod::ParseUtils helpers for POD parsing and conversion Pod::Parser base class for creating POD filters and translators Pod::Plainer Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod. Pod::Select, podselect() extract selected sections of POD from input Pod::Text Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text Pod::Text::Color Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes Pod::Text::Overstrike Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text Pod::Tree Create a static syntax tree for a POD Pod::Tree::HTML Generate HTML from a Pod::Tree Pod::Tree::Node nodes in a Pod::Tree Pod::Tree::PerlBin translate program PODs to HTML Pod::Tree::PerlDist translate Perl distribution documentation to HTML Pod::Tree::PerlFunc translate perlfunc.pod to HTML Pod::Tree::PerlLib translate module PODs to HTML Pod::Tree::PerlMap map names to URLs Pod::Tree::PerlPod translate Perl PODs to HTML Pod::Tree::PerlTop generate a top-level index for Perl PODs Pod::Tree::Pod Convert a Pod::Tree back to a POD Pod::Usage, pod2usage() print a usage message from embedded pod documentation SDBM_File Tied access to sdbm files Safe Compile and execute code in restricted compartments Search::Dict, 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 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators Storable persistency for perl data structures Symbol manipulate Perl symbols and their names Sys::Hostname Try every conceivable way to get hostname Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls Tar module for manipulation of tar archives. Term::ANSIColor Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences Term::Cap Perl termcap interface Term::Complete Perl word completion module Term::ReadKey A perl module for simple terminal control Term::ReadLine Perl interface to various readline packages. If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions. Test provides a simple framework for writing test scripts Test::Harness run perl standard test scripts with statistics Text::ParseWords parse text into an array of tokens or array of arrays Text::Soundex Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described by Knuth Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1) Text::Wrap line wrapping to form simple paragraphs Tie::Array base class for tied arrays Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle base class definitions for tied handles Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash base class definitions for tied hashes Tie::RefHash use references as hash keys Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar base class definitions for tied scalars Tie::SubstrHash Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing Time::Local efficiently compute time from local and GMT time 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::tm internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime UNIVERSAL base class for ALL classes (blessed references) URI Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative) URI::Escape Escape and unescape unsafe characters URI::URL Uniform Resource Locators URI::WithBase URI which remember their base URI::data URI that contain immediate data URI::file URI that map to local file names URI::ldap LDAP Uniform Resource Locators User::grent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() functions User::pwent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File Persistent RobotRules WWW::RobotsRules Parse robots.txt files Win32 Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions XSLoader Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code abbrev create an abbreviation table from a list attributes get/set subroutine or variable attributes attrs set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) autouse postpone load of modules until a function is used base Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time blib Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package bytes Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics carp warn of errors (from perspective of caller) cgi_to_mod_perl First steps needed to use mod_perl as a CGI replacement charnames define character names for \N{named} string literal escape. choose choose a variant of a document to serve (HTTP content negotiation) constant Perl pragma to declare constants diagnostics Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics fields compile-time class fields fileparse split a pathname into pieces filetest Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators find traverse a file tree get, head, getprint, getstore, mirror Procedural LWP interface getopt Process single-character switches with switch clustering integer Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating point less perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler lib manipulate @INC at compile time libnetFAQ libnet Frequently Asked Questions locale Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations lwpcook libwww-perl cookbook mod_perl Embed a Perl interpreter in the Apache HTTP server mod_perl_cvs Access to the mod_perl CVS development tree mod_perl_method_handlers How to use mod_perl's MethodHandlers mod_perl_traps common/known mod_perl traps mod_perl_tuning mod_perl performance tuning open perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output ops Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling overload Package for overloading perl operations parse_dir parse directory listing re Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour sigtrap Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling strict Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs subs Perl pragma to predeclare sub names uf_uristr Expand URI using heuristics utf8 Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 in source code validate run many filetest checks on a tree vars Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete) warnings Perl pragma to control optional warnings