Crypt::RandPasswd provides three functions that can be used to generate random passwords, constructed from words, letters, or characters. This code is a Perl implementation of the Automated Password Generator standard, like the program described in "A Random Word Generator For Pronounceable Passwords". This code is a re-engineering of the program contained in Appendix A of FIPS Publication 181, "Standard for Automated Password Generator".

The Template Toolkit is a collection of modules which implement an extensible template processing system. It was originally designed and remains primarily useful for generating dynamic web content, but it can be used equally well for processing any other kind of text based documents: HTML, XML, POD, PostScript, LaTeX, and so on.

This module provides a collection of named blocks that allow a return statement to return different values depending on the context in which it is called.

Exporter::Tiny supports many of Sub::Exporter's external-facing features including renaming imported functions with the `-as`, `-prefix` and `-suffix` options; explicit destinations with the `into` option; and alternative installers with the `installer` option. But it's written in only about 40% as many lines of code and with zero non-core dependencies.

This module is intended as a drop-in replacement for NEXT, supporting the same interface, but using Class::C3 to do the hard work.

These self-contained Perl modules provide cryptography based on the LibTomCrypt library.

This module provides a Perl interface to the iconv() codeset conversion function, as defined by the Single UNIX Specification. For more details see the POD documentation embedded in the file Iconv.pm, which will also be installed as Text::Iconv(3) man page.

This package provides a class Encode::Detect to detect the encoding of data.

PAR::Dist is a toolkit to create and manipulate PAR distributions.

This module provides functions to encode and decode UTF-8 encoding form as specified by Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646:2011.

Guard implements so-called guards. A guard is something (usually an object) that "guards" a resource, ensuring that it is cleaned up when expected.

Specifically, this module supports two different types of guards: guard objects, which execute a given code block when destroyed, and scoped guards, which are tied to the scope exit.

Exporter implements an import method which allows a module to export functions and variables to its users' namespaces. Many modules use Exporter rather than implementing their own import method because Exporter provides a highly flexible interface, with an implementation optimised for the common case.

Ref::Util::XS is the XS implementation of Ref::Util, which provides several functions to help identify references in a more convenient way than the usual approach of examining the return value of ref.

Spiffy is a framework and methodology for doing object oriented (OO) programming in Perl. Spiffy combines the best parts of Exporter.pm, base.pm, mixin.pm and SUPER.pm into one magic foundation class. It attempts to fix all the nits and warts of traditional Perl OO, in a clean, straightforward and (perhaps someday) standard way. Spiffy borrows ideas from other OO languages like Python, Ruby, Java and Perl 6.

Number::Format is a library for formatting numbers. Functions are provided for converting numbers to strings in a variety of ways, and to convert strings that contain numbers back into numeric form. The output formats may include thousands separators - characters inserted between each group of three characters counting right to left from the decimal point. The characters used for the decimal point and the thousands separator come from the locale information or can be specified by the user.

IO::All combines all of the best Perl IO modules into a single nifty object oriented interface to greatly simplify your everyday Perl IO idioms. It exports a single function called io, which returns a new IO::All object. And that object can do it all!

This module provides a syntax plugin that implements exception-handling semantics in a form familiar to users of other languages, being built on a block labeled with the try keyword, followed by at least one of a catch or finally block.

Software distributions released to the CPAN include a META.json or, for older distributions, META.yml, which describes the distribution, its contents, and the requirements for building and installing the distribution. The data structure stored in the META.json file is described in CPAN::Meta::Spec. CPAN::Meta provides a simple class to represent this distribution metadata (or distmeta), along with some helpful methods for interrogating that data.

This is a Perl package designed to generate browsable HTML documentation from the POD (Plain Old Documentation) embedded in Perl source code.

Filesys::Notify::Simple is a simple but unified interface to get notifications of changes to a given file system path. It uses inotify2 on Linux, fsevents on OS X, kqueue on FreeBSD, and FindFirstChangeNotification on Windows if they're installed, and falls back to a full directory scan if none of these are available.

MailTools contains the following modules:

Mail::Address

Parse email address from a header line.

Mail::Cap

Interpret mailcap files: mappings of file-types to applications as used by many command-line email programs.

Mail::Field

Simplifies access to (some) email header fields. Used by Mail::Header.

Mail::Filter

Process Mail::Internet messages.

Mail::Header

Collection of Mail::Field objects, representing the header of a Mail::Internet object.

Mail::Internet

Represents a single email message, with header and body.

Mail::Mailer

Send Mail::Internet emails via direct smtp or local MTA's.

Mail::Send

Build a Mail::Internet object, and then send it out using Mail::Mailer.

Mail::Util

"Smart functions" you should not depend on.

This module is able to generically format rows of data into tables.

Eksblowfish is a variant of the Blowfish cipher, modified to make the key setup very expensive. This doesn't make it significantly cryptographically stronger but is intended to hinder brute-force attacks. Eksblowfish is a parameterised (family-keyed) cipher. It takes a cost parameter that controls how expensive the key scheduling is. It also takes a family key, known as the "salt". Cost and salt parameters together define a cipher family. Within each family, the key determines the encryption function. This distribution also includes an implementation of bcrypt, the Unix crypt() password hashing algorithm based on Eksblowfish.

Exception::Class allows you to declare exception hierarchies in your modules in a "Java-esque" manner.