Perl: List Available Modules

By Xah Lee. Date: 2024-05-06.

List Available Modules

To get a list of standard module that are bundled with Perl (but not necessarily installed), type in terminal: perldoc perlmodlib.

You can also use the bundled corelist command line util. Use it in terminal.

corelist: show usage help.
corelist /JSON/: search by regex on JSON.
corelist Data::Dumper: Show package version and perl version.

◆ corelist -a Data::Dumper

Data::Dumper was first released with perl 5.005
  5.005      2.09
…
  v5.13.3    2.126
  v5.13.4    2.126
  v5.13.5    2.128
  v5.13.6    2.129
  v5.13.7    2.130_01
  v5.13.8    2.130_02
  v5.13.9    2.130_02
  v5.13.10   2.130_02
  v5.13.11   2.130_02
  v5.14.0    2.130_02
  v5.14.1    2.130_02
  v5.14.2    2.130_02

◆ corelist  /JSON/

JSON::PP was first released with perl v5.13.9

JSON::PP::Boolean was first released with perl v5.13.9

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