Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Welcome to CPAN

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 186,907 Perl modules in 35,290 distributions, written by 13,100 authors, mirrored on 248 servers.

The archive has been online since October 1995 and is constantly growing.

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• metacpan.org
• search.cpan.org

Getting Started

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