Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Welcome to CPAN

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) currently has 200,119 Perl modules in 36,415 distributions, written by 13,501 authors, mirrored on 260 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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