Perl Modules

Introduction to Archive::Zip

The Archive::Zip module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate, read, and write Zip archive files.

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Archive::Zip Dependencies

Recommended (for the test suite)

UnZip-6.0 (with its patch)

Introduction to the autovivification module

This module allows you disable autovivification (the automatic creation and population of new arrays and hashes whenever undefined variables are dereferenced), and optionally throw a warning or an error when it would have occurred.

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Introduction to Business::ISBN

The Business::ISBN module provides functions for working with International Standard Book Numbers.

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Business::ISBN Dependencies

Required

Business-ISBN-Data-20230426.001

Introduction to Business::ISMN

The Business::ISMN module is for work with International Standard Music Numbers.

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Business::ISMN Dependencies

Required

Tie-Cycle-1.227

Introduction to Business::ISSN

The Business::ISSN module is for work with International Standard Serial Numbers.

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Introduction to Class::Accessor

Class::Accessor generates accessors/mutators for your class.

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Introduction to Data::Compare

The Data::Compare module compares two perl data structures.

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Data::Compare Dependencies

Required

Clone-0.46, File-Find-Rule-0.34

Introduction to Data::Dump

Data::Dump provides pretty printing of data structures.

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Introduction to Data::Uniqid

Data::Uniqid provides three simple routines for generating unique IDs.

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Introduction to DateTime::Calendar::Julian

DateTime::Calendar::Julian implements the Julian Calendar.

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DateTime::Calendar::Julian Dependencies

Required

DateTime-1.59

Introduction to DateTime::Format::Builder

DateTime::Format::Builder created DateTime parser classes and objects.

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DateTime::Format::Builder Dependencies

Required

DateTime-Format-Strptime-1.79 and Params-Validate-1.31

Introduction to Encode::EUCJPASCII

Encode::EUCJPASCII provides an eucJP-open (Extended Unix Code, Japanese) mapping.

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Introduction to Encode::HanExtra

The Encode::HanExtra module provides extra sets of Chinese Encodings which are not included in the core Encode module because of size issues.

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Introduction to Encode::JIS2K

The Encode::JIS2K module provides JIS X 0212 (aka JIS 2000) Encodings.

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Introduction to File::FcntlLock

File::FcntlLock is a module to do file locking in an object oriented fashion using the fcntl(2) system call. This allows locks on parts of a file as well as on the whole file and overcomes some known problems with flock(2), on which Perls flock() function is based per default.

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Introduction to File::Slurper

File::Slurper is a simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file.

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File::Slurper Dependencies

Recommended (required for the test suite)

Test-Warnings-0.031

Introduction to File::Which

File::Which provides a portable implementation of the 'which' utility.

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Introduction to HTML::Parser

The HTML::Parser distribution is a collection of modules that parse and extract information from HTML documents.

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HTML::Parser Dependencies

Required

HTML-Tagset-3.20 HTTP-Message-6.44 (stritly speaking, not required for building, but its module HTTP::Headers is required for tests and a run-time requirement for HTML::HeadParser from this distribution).

Introduction to HTTP::Daemon

Instances of the HTTP::Daemon class are HTTP/1.1 servers that listen on a socket for incoming requests. The HTTP::Daemon is a subclass of IO::Socket::INET, so you can perform socket operations directly on it too.

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HTTP::Daemon Dependencies

Required

HTTP-Message-6.44

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Makefile.PL and running the tests will complain that Module::Build::Tiny is missing, but that is only needed for Build.PL which is used if the system lacks a C compiler.

Introduction to IO::Socket::SSL

IO::Socket::SSL makes using SSL/TLS much easier by wrapping the necessary functionality into the familiar IO::Socket interface and providing secure defaults whenever possible.

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IO::Socket::SSL Dependencies

Required

make-ca-1.13 and Net-SSLeay-1.92

Recommended

URI-5.21 (to access international domain names)

Introduction to IO::String

IO::String - Emulate file interface for in-core strings.

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Introduction to IPC::Run3

IPC::Run3 is used to run a subprocess with input/output redirection.

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Introduction to JSON

JSON provides a simple wrapper for JSON::XS-compatible modules with some additional features.

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Introduction to Lingua::Translit

Lingua::Translit and its translit program transliterate text between writing systems.

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Introduction to LWP - The World-wide Web library for Perl

The libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent application programming interface (API) to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients. The library also contains modules that are of more general use and even classes that help you implement simple HTTP servers.

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libwww-perl Dependencies

Required

File-Listing-6.15, HTTP-CookieJar-0.014, HTTP-Cookies-6.10, HTTP-Daemon-6.16, HTTP-Negotiate-6.01, HTML-Parser-3.81, Net-HTTP-6.23, Try-Tiny-0.31 and WWW-RobotRules-6.02

Recommended (required for the test suite)

Test-Fatal-0.017, Test-Needs-0.002010 and Test-RequiresInternet-0.05

Introduction to List::AllUtils

The List::Allutils module combines List::Util and List::MoreUtils in one bite-sized package.

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List::AllUtils Dependencies

Required

List-SomeUtils-0.59, List-UtilsBy-0.12

Introduction to List::MoreUtils

List::MoreUtils provides the stuff missing in List::Util.

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List::MoreUtils Dependencies

Required

Exporter-Tiny-1.006000 and List-MoreUtils-XS-0.430

Introduction to Log::Log4perl

Log::Log4perl provides a Log4j implementation for perl.

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Introduction to LWP::Protocol::https

LWP::Protocol::https provides https support for LWP::UserAgent (i.e. libwww-perl-6.73). Once the module is installed LWP is able to access sites using HTTP over SSL/TLS.

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LWP::Protocol::https Dependencies

Required

IO-Socket-SSL-2.084, libwww-perl-6.73 and make-ca-1.13 with /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt.

Introduction to Module::Build

Module::Build allows perl modules to be built without a make command being present.

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Introduction to Net::DNS

Net::DNS is a DNS resolver implemented in Perl. It can be used to perform nearly any type of DNS query from a Perl script.

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Introduction to Parse::RecDescent

Parse::RecDescent incrementally generates top-down recursive-descent text parsers from simple yacc-like grammar specifications.

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Introduction to Parse::Yapp

Parse::Yapp is a Perl extension for generating and using LALR parsers.

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Introduction to PerlIO::utf8_strict

PerlIO::utf8_strict provides a fast and correct UTF-8 PerlIO layer. Unlike Perl's default :utf8 layer it checks the input for correctness.

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PerlIO::utf8_strict Dependencies

Recommended (required for the test suite)

Test-Exception-0.43

Introduction to Regexp::Common

Regexp::Common provides commonly requested regular expressions.

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Introduction to SGMLSpm

The SGMLSpm module is a Perl library used for parsing the output from James Clark's SGMLS and NSGMLS parsers.

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Introduction to Sort::Key

Sort::Key provides a set of functions to sort lists of values by some calculated key value.

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Introduction to Test::Command

Test::Command tests the exit status, STDOUT, or STDERR, of an external command.

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Introduction to Test::Differences

Test::Differences tests strings and data structures and shows the differences if they do not match.

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Test::Differences Dependencies

Required

Text-Diff-1.45

Recommended (required for the test suite)

Capture-Tiny-0.48

Introduction to Text::BibTeX

Text::BibTeX provides an interface to read and parse BibTeX files.

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Text::BibTeX Dependencies

Required

Config-AutoConf-0.320, ExtUtils-LibBuilder-0.08

Introduction to Text::CSV

Text::CSV is a comma-separated values manipulator, using XS (eXternal Subroutine - for subroutines written in C or C++) or pure perl.

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Text::CSV Dependencies

Recommended

Text-CSV_XS-1.53 (required by biber-2.19)

Introduction to Text::Roman

Text::Roman allows conversion between Roman and Arabic algorisms (number systems, e.g. MCMXLV and 1945).

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Introduction to Unicode::Collate

Unicode::Collate provides a Unicode collation algorithm.

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Introduction to Unicode::LineBreak

Unicode::LineBreak provides a UAX #14 Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm.

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Unicode::LineBreak Dependencies

Required

MIME-Charset-1.013.1, also Wget-1.21.4 (to download two files from unicode.org in the test suite)

Optional

libthai (to break Thai words into segments)

Introduction to URI

This module implements the URI class. Objects of this class represent "Uniform Resource Identifier references" as specified in RFC 2396 (and updated by RFC 2732). A Uniform Resource Identifier is a compact string of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. A Uniform Resource Identifier can be further classified as either a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a Uniform Resource Name (URN). The distinction between URL and URN does not matter to the URI class interface. A "URI-reference" is a URI that may have additional information attached in the form of a fragment identifier.

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URI Dependencies

Recommended (required for the test suite)

Test-Fatal-0.017, Test-Needs-0.002010, and Test-Warnings-0.031

Optional

Business-ISBN-3.008

Introduction to XML::LibXML::Simple

The XML::LibXML::Simple module is a rewrite of XML::Simple to use the XML::LibXML parser for XML structures, instead of the plain Perl or SAX parsers.

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XML::LibXML::Simple Dependencies

Required

XML-LibXML-2.0208

Introduction to XML::LibXSLT

XML-LibXSLT provides an interface to libxslt-1.1.39

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XML::LibXSLT Dependencies

Required

libxslt-1.1.39, XML-LibXML-2.0208

Introduction to XML::Simple

XML::Simple provides an easy API to read and write XML (especially config files). It is deprecated and its use is discouraged.

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XML::Simple Dependencies

Optional

XML-SAX-1.02 (for an alternative parser which will be used if available, otherwise XML::Parser which was installed in LFS will be used),

Introduction to XML::Writer

XML::Writer provides a Perl extension for writing XML documents.

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