- AnyDBM_File
- 
provide framework for multiple DBMs
- Attribute::Handlers
- 
Simpler definition of attribute handlers
- attributes
- 
get/set subroutine or variable attributes
- attrs
- 
set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
- AutoLoader
- 
load subroutines only on demand
- AutoSplit
- 
split a package for autoloading
- autouse
- 
postpone load of modules until a function is used
- B
- 
The Perl Compiler
- B::Asmdata
- 
Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate bytecode
- B::Assembler
- 
Assemble Perl bytecode
- B::Bblock
- 
Walk basic blocks
- B::Bytecode
- 
Perl compiler's bytecode backend
- B::C
- 
Perl compiler's C backend
- B::CC
- 
Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
- B::Concise
- 
Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
- B::Debug
- 
Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
- B::Deparse
- 
Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
- B::Disassembler
- 
Disassemble Perl bytecode
- B::Lint
- 
Perl lint
- B::Showlex
- 
Show lexical variables used in functions or files
- B::Stackobj
- 
Helper module for CC backend
- B::Stash
- 
show what stashes are loaded
- B::Terse
- 
Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
- B::Xref
- 
Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
- base
- 
Establish IS-A relationship with base classes at compile time
- Benchmark
- 
benchmark running times of Perl code
- bigint
- 
Transparent BigInteger support for Perl
- bignum
- 
Transparent BigNumber support for Perl
- bigrat
- 
Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
- blib
- 
Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
- ByteLoader
- 
load byte compiled perl code
- bytes
- 
Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics
- Carp
- 
warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
- Carp::Heavy
- 
heavy machinery, no user serviceable parts inside
- CGI
- 
Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
- CGI::Apache
- 
Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
- CGI::Carp
- 
CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log
- CGI::Cookie
- 
Interface to Netscape Cookies
- CGI::Fast
- 
CGI Interface for Fast CGI
- CGI::Pretty
- 
module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
- CGI::Push
- 
Simple Interface to Server Push
- CGI::Switch
- 
Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
- CGI::Util
- 
Internal utilities used by CGI module
- charnames
- 
define character names for CW\N{named} string literal escapes
- Class::ISA
- 
Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
- Class::Struct
- 
declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
- Config
- 
access Perl configuration information
- constant
- 
Perl pragma to declare constants
- CPAN
- 
query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
- CPAN::FirstTime
- 
Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization