If you write enough Perl, you'll reach a point where you need to create a module. And the more you work with quality code modules from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), the more you ...

Once you get to grips with Perl packages, modules and distributions it's far easier to start hacking on Perl modules that don't work the way you want them to. For example, in the case of a module that ...

CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is a network of Perl software archives around the world. Perl version 5.6.x includes modules (CPAN and CPAN::FirstTime, among others) that allow it to ...

Trying to install Perl Net::SNMP module, which seems to require a bunch of crypto/digest modules.

Is it possible to have perl modules that are not systemwide available, but located in a users home directory- but still loaded by the systemwide perl when the user calls that perl with an option?I ...

Two key areas for improving Perl programming are achieving better support for Win32 and efficiently producing an executable version of your program. This article rounds up a couple of tips to ...