Summary

In this hour, you learned how modules are used to extend the Perl language to perform many other tasks. This general-purpose method of adding new functionality to Perl will be used throughout the rest of the book. Also, a few common modules were presented, and the full listing of modules included with the standard distribution was reviewed.

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