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B.3 CPAN: Beyond the Standard Library

If you don't find an entry in the standard library that fits your needs, someone still may have written code that will be useful to you. Many superb library modules exist that are not included in the standard distribution, for various practical, political, and pathetic reasons. To find out what is available, you can look at the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). See the discussion of CPAN in Chapter 1, Introduction.

Here are the major categories of modules available from CPAN:


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