Perl for C Programmers

Resources

Modules

• Digest::MD5— Creates an MD5 checksum for a file (or other data).

• File::Basename— Parses filenames into their components.

• File::Find— Finds files in a directory tree.

• File::Spec::Functions— Filename manipulation functions.

• GD::Graph— Produces a variety of graphs. (This single CPAN module installs a number of modules in your Perl library.)

• GD::Graph3d— Produces 3D graphs. (Again, this installs a set of modules.)

• HTML::SimpleLinkExtor— Extracts links from web pages.

• LWP::Simple— Package to grab web pages from the net.

• POSIX— Posix functions such as getcwd (gets current directory).

• Storable— Loads and stores complex data.

• Tk— The interface to the Tk GUI package.

Programs

• find2perl— Turns find commands into Perl programs.