This module replaces the standard localtime and gmtime functions with implementations that return objects. It does so in a backwards-compatible manner, so that using these functions as documented will still work as expected.

This Perl module provides Unicode normalization forms.

File::Find is great, but constructing the wanted routine can sometimes be a pain. File::Finder provides a wanted-writer, using syntax that is directly mappable to the find(1) command's syntax.

A File::Finder object contains a hash of File::Find options, and a series of steps that mimic find's predicates. Initially, a File::Finder object has no steps. Each step method clones the previous object's options and steps, and then adds the new step, returning the new object. In this manner, an object can be grown, step by step, by chaining method calls. Furthermore, a partial sequence can be created and held, and used as the head of many different sequences.

This module provides various portable helper functions for module building modules.

One recurring problem in modules that use Scalar::Util's weaken function is that it is not present in the pure-perl variant. If Scalar::Util is not available at all, it will issue a normal dependency on the module. However, if Scalar::Util is relatively new ( it is >= 1.19 ) and the module does not have weaken, the install will bail out altogether with a long error encouraging the user to seek support.

Parse::CPAN::Meta is a parser for META.json and META.yml files, using JSON::PP and/or CPAN::Meta::YAML.

Module::Manifest is a simple utility module created originally for use in Module::Inspector.

It can load a MANIFEST file that comes in a Perl distribution tarball, examine the contents, and perform some simple tasks. It can also load the MANIFEST.SKIP file and check that.

Routines to manipulate defhash, a convention to define things more precisely and uniformly using a hash, in Perl.

DateTime::Format::Natural takes a string with a human readable date/time and creates a machine readable one by applying natural parsing logic.

This module is a factory for dispensing Tree::Simple::Visitor::* objects.

This package trims the first components of the displayed filename to deal with excessively long ones.

This package provides a Perl library to read multiple hunks of data out of your DATA section.

Some Perl modules need to ship C libraries together with their Perl code. Although there are mechanisms to compile and link (or glue) C code in your Perl programs, there isn't a clear method to compile standard, self-contained C libraries. This module main goal is to help in that task.

PLS is a Perl language server that implements a subset of the Language Server Protocol for the Perl language. Features currently implemented are:

• Go to definition (for packages, subroutines, and variables)

• Listing all symbols in a document

• Hovering to show documentation

• Signature help (showing parameters for a function as you type)

• Formatting

• Range formatting

• Auto-completion

• Syntax checking

• Linting (using perlcritic)

• Sorting imports

To use this language with Emacs, you can configure Eglot like so:

(add-hook 'perl-mode-hook 'eglot-ensure)
(setq eglot-server-programs '((perl-mode . ("pls"))))

This package is an internationalization library for Perl that aims to be compatible with the Uniforum message translations system as implemented for example in GNU gettext.

This module provides convenience methods that let you easily create DateTime::Set objects for various recurrences, such as "once a month" or "every day". You can also create more complicated recurrences, such as "every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM".

Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. The goal is for names with the same pronunciation to be encoded to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling.

This module implements the original soundex algorithm developed by Robert Russell and Margaret Odell, patented in 1918 and 1922, as well as a variation called "American Soundex" used for US census data, and current maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

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

This module implements the Perl foreign function interface XS for C++; it is a thin layer over plain XS.

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 package provides some basic statistics on numerical vectors. All the subroutines can take a reference to the vector to be operated on.

This package implements usleep, ualarm, and gettimeofday for Perl, as well as wrappers to implement time, sleep, and alarm that know about non-integral seconds.

Text::CSV provides facilities for the composition and decomposition of comma-separated values. An instance of the Text::CSV class can combine fields into a CSV string and parse a CSV string into fields.

Strictures turns on strict and make all warnings fatal when run from within a source-controlled directory.