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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