Essential Perl Modules

Grant's picks...

For a really good book on the subject of which Perl modules you need to know about, check out:

Programming with Perl Modules
by Erik Olson

This book is part of the Perl Resource Kit -- Win32 Edition from O'Reilly and Associates.  It's unfortunate that the Win32 PRK is so expensive, as this is a really good book which is not available separately.  Some of the modules which are covered in this book and which I've found useful include:

  
Chapter Module  See Also
CPAN 
CPAN 
Parsing Command Line Arguments
Getopt::Std
Getopt::Long
Manipulating Files and Text
File::Basename
Text::Wrap
Text::Tabs
Win32::File
Win32::FileSecurity
Win32::ChangeNotify
File::Find
File::Spec
Archive::Tar
Compress::Zlib
MD5
Date and Time
Date::Calc
Date::Manip
POSIX
User Interfaces with Perl
Tk
OLE Automation
Win32::OLE
Database Access
DBI
ActiveX Data Objects
SDBM_File
Socket Programming
IO::Socket IO::Select
The Internet Modules
LWP
Net::FTP
Net::Telnet
Mail and MIME
Net::SMTP
Net::POP3
MIME::Base64
CGI Programming
CGI Apache::Registry
Apache::DBI
Image Creation and Manipulation
GD Image::Magick
Win32 Programming
Win32
Win32::Process
Win32::Clipboard
Win32::Sound
Win32::Service
Win32::TieRegistry

 

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