When subclassing a class, you may occasionally want to dispatch control to the superclass---at least conditionally and temporarily. This module provides nicer equivalents to the native Perl syntax for calling superclasses, along with a universal super method to determine a class' own superclass, and better support for run-time mix-ins and roles.

This module provides functions that are the inverse of built-in perl functions localtime() and gmtime(). They accept a date as a six-element array, and return the corresponding time(2) value in seconds since the system epoch.

Manipulating stashes (Perl's symbol tables) is occasionally necessary, but incredibly messy, and easy to get wrong. This module hides all of that behind a simple API.

This module disables bareword filehandles.

This module provides conflicts checking for Module::Runtime, which had a recent release that broke some versions of Moose. It is called from Moose::Conflicts and moose-outdated.

This module provides a few useful functions for manipulating module names. Its main aim is to centralise some of the functions commonly used by modules that manipulate other modules in some way, like converting module names to relative paths.

Given a list of scalars or reference variables, Data::Dumper writes out their contents in Perl syntax. The references can also be objects. The content of each variable is output in a single Perl statement. It handles self-referential structures correctly.

Pod::Parser is a base class for creating POD filters and translators. It handles most of the effort involved with parsing the POD sections from an input stream, leaving subclasses free to be concerned only with performing the actual translation of text.

NOTE: This module is considered legacy. New projects should prefer Pod::Simple instead.

Term::Encoding is a simple module to detect the encoding of the current terminal expects in various ways.

This module understands the formats used by SQLite for its date, datetime and time functions. It can be used to parse these formats in order to create DateTime objects, and it can take a DateTime object and produce a timestring accepted by SQLite.

Text::Diff provides a basic set of services akin to the GNU diff utility. It is not anywhere near as feature complete as GNU diff, but it is better integrated with Perl and available on all platforms. It is often faster than shelling out to a system's diff executable for small files, and generally slower on larger files.

This module provides a mechanism for determining if the pod for a given module is comprehensive.

The PPI module parses, analyzes and manipulates Perl code.

This module, ReadKey, provides ioctl control for terminals so the input modes can be changed (thus allowing reads of a single character at a time), and also provides non-blocking reads of stdin, as well as several other terminal related features, including retrieval/modification of the screen size, and retrieval/modification of the control characters.

This package provides functions to convert between Roman and Arabic algorisms. It supports both conventional Roman algorisms (which range from 1 to 3999) and Milhar Romans, a variation which uses a bar across the algorism to indicate multiplication by 1000.

Sub::Exporter is an incredibly powerful module, but with that power comes great responsibility, as well as some runtime penalties. This module is a "Sub::Exporter" wrapper that will let your users just use Exporter if all they are doing is picking exports, but use "Sub::Exporter" if your users try to use "Sub::Exporter"'s more advanced features, like renaming exports, if they try to use them.

Perl::MinimumVersion takes Perl source code and calculates the minimum version of perl required to be able to run it. Because it is based on the PPI (Perl Parsing Interface), it can do this without loading the code. The distribution comes with a script called perlver.

This module provides three utility subroutines that make it easier to develop interactive applications: is_interactive(), interactive(), and busy().

This module provides a convenient way to perform cleanup or other forms of resource management at the end of a scope. It is particularly useful when dealing with exceptions: the Scope::Guard constructor takes a reference to a subroutine that is guaranteed to be called even if the thread of execution is aborted prematurely. This effectively allows lexically-scoped "promises" to be made that are automatically honoured by perl's garbage collector.

Carp::Assert::More is a set of handy assertion functions for Perl.

This package provides various utility functions. When used without argument, this module provides four universally accessible attributes of general interest as follows:

• Abstract

• Alias

• Memoize

• Method

• SigHandler

When searching through large amounts of data, it is often the case that a result set is returned that is larger than we want to display on one page. This results in wanting to page through various pages of data. The maths behind this is unfortunately fiddly, hence this module.

Data::SExpression parses Lisp S-Expressions into Perl data structures.

The Getopt::Long module implements an extended getopt function called GetOptions(). It parses the command line from ARGV, recognizing and removing specified options and their possible values.

This function adheres to the POSIX syntax for command line options, with GNU extensions. In general, this means that options have long names instead of single letters, and are introduced with a double dash "--". Support for bundling of command line options, as was the case with the more traditional single-letter approach, is provided but not enabled by default.