CPAN

As a side note, tied arrays happen to be the most complex tied variable type, and the least often implemented on CPAN by my count.

CPAN module, but a special converter from XML back to Excel would have to be written.

Using the methodology described here, your code will be very close to compliance with the CPAN modules format.

The principal issue is the relationship between a newly created class and a CPAN module class.

You begin this process by installing cpan on your machine using the commands shown in Listing 1.

CPAN module, which can go through the entire process table, and give the user a list of processes with many important attributes.

In this article we'll use the Class: : DBI CPAN module to manage database tables (more on that in the next section).

Begin by configuring one computer to use CPAN as normal and setting up your default set of modules.

CPAN is not an ideal solution within a local area network (LAN), even with the above tricks.

Most people are familiar with CPAN as an interactive shell for building and installing Perl modules.

There are contributed modules on CPAN for direct translation to Latex, PDF, and Postscript as well.

Ted explains the basics of tying variables, using concrete examples of CPAN modules through their usage and implementation.

Out of the proverbial CPAN box, AppConfig can do extra processing but you have to decide the order in which it will happen.

Both cpan and ppm check for dependencies during installation and will fetch any missing dependencies from the depository.

Network: CPAN is mirrored at more than one hundred sites around the world.

All the widgets discussed here are freely available as user contributions from CPAN.

Its only fault is that it does not comment on existing CPAN modules that could replace that code and save the reader the work.

By Dave Winters, has additional information about the Persistent classes on this page, which you can also find on the CPAN search page.

Once the final paper is completed later this week, Adam Kennedy will receive the admin passwords on behalf of CPAN.

You also need the Time: : HiRes module from CPAN to provide subsecond timing control for processing TouchPad events.

You'll also find on CPAN more information about GD. pm, the Perl interface to the GD graphics library.

This tutorial discusses CPAN modules for text parsing, and shows how you can use them easily in your own programs.

If your code is reusable enough that others find it useful, you should consider submitting it to CPAN (see Resources).

You can use a central CPAN installation directory, or you can use a central CPAN source directory.

The CPAN Persistent classes are powerful allies in your search for data persistence solutions.

You'll also need the Time: : HiRes module from CPAN to provide subsecond timing control when recording data.

Type "cpan" or "perl -MCPAN -eshell" at the UNIX prompt, and you'll get a secondary prompt.

For each CPAN module mentioned in this article, you can look at the implementation with the CPAN interface.

Note: Some of the programs we discuss will require the Parse: : RecDescent CPAN module in order to run.

Cpan. org: Visit this site for more information on the Perl module and documentation repository.

These modules and tools are on CPAN, freely available, and you can start using them right away.

Download and install the GD module from your favorite CPAN mirror.

I highly suggest you visit CPAN before writing a complex script; it will be worth the effort.

There are many CPAN modules for application configuration.

If you are using UNIX or Linux, it's most convenient to get these from CPAN using cpan.

Unfortunately, the CPAN module that would do this doesn't exist, yet.

The articles in RSPW range from current to outdated, mostly because they inspired new CPAN modules or developments in Perl itself.

If you need to do that much work, you probably should be using a CPAN MP3 ID3 tag module instead of parsing filenames.

Please make sure at the outset that you have Perl 5. 005 or later and the CPAN AppConfig module installed on your system.

This is automatic if you set cpan's prerequisites policy to 'follow'.

See the Resources section if you need help with CPAN.

Module for including Perl 6 regular expression syntax in Perl 5 lives at CPAN.

Find AppConfig 1. 56, the Perl5 module for reading configuration files and parsing command-line arguments, in the CPAN archives.

There are CPAN Unicode modules that work correctly with older versions of Perl as well as 5. 6. 0, and they should be used if appropriate.

I did not evaluate two other S3 CPAN modules in detail, but here's a quick summary

Examples of tying scalar, array, and hash variables through CPAN modules

Advanced usage of the CPAN AppConfig module

A CPAN solution to data persistence