Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Welcome to CPAN

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 175,586 Perl modules in 34,689 distributions, written by 12,932 authors, mirrored on 250 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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