Packages
- Net::POP3 - talk to a POP mailer
- Net::FTP - full access to FTP functions
- Net::SMTP - mail access
- Array::PrintCols - print arrays in aligned columns
- Date::Convert - Gregorian-Julian-Hebrew-astronomical date
conversion
- Date::Manip - date differences, offsets: knows "today", "1st thursday
in June 1992", etc.
- Math::ematica - talk to Wolfram's Mathematica
- Math::Spline - cubic spline interpolation
- ObjStore - interface to the ObjectStore OODBMS
- Sort::Versions - sorts version numbers like 1.1a < 1.2, 1.1 <
1.1.1, 1.1 < 1.1a, 1.1.a < 1.1a, a < b
- DBD - Database Drivers. Includes DBD::DB2, DBD::Informix, DBD::Oracle,
DBD::QBase, DBD::Sybase, etc.
- File::Df - how full are your disks?
- File::Recurse - run through directory trees
- Font::AFM - get Adobe Font Metrics
- SGML::SPGrove - a grove interface driven by SP
- stem.pl find roots of English words
- Text::German - stems German words
- Text::Soundex - generate soundex
- Text::Tabs - switch back and forth between tabs and multiple
spaces
- Wais - access to the WAIS search engine
- IniConf - Read and write Windows .INI files
- Cz - Tools for manipulating Czech text
- Locale::Language - Two-letter codes for language identification
- Crypt::DES - implements DES block cipher algorithm
- MD5 - computes digital message "thumbnail"
- libwww - everything you need for Web servers and clients
- CGI::Imagemap - define Web imagemaps
- HTML::FormatPS - convert HTML to PostScript
- HTML::LinkExStor - Extracts links from an HTML document
- HTML::TreeBuilder - Parser builds an HTML Syntax Tree
- HTML::dtd2pm.pl - generates HTML::TreeBuilder by reading an HTML
DTD
- HTTP::Request - construct HTTP requests
- LWP::MediaTypes - guess the media type for a resource
- MIME::Base64 - encodes and decodes Base 64
- MIME::Parser - Split MIME mail into decoded components
- Netscape::Server - Allows you to embed a Perl interpreter in a Netscape
Web Server
- URI::Escape - fixes dangerous characters in URIs
- OpenGL - access the OpenGL graphics library
- Business::CreditCard - checks validity of credit cards and identifying
the type
- Penguin - execute encrypted, digitally signed perl code across the network