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((Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later) AND Artistic-2.0)
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This package provides the bulk of the core testing facilities. For more information, see perldoc for Test::Simple, Test::More, etc. This package is the CPAN component of the dual-lifed core package Test-Simple.
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It is standard practice to include a Changes file in your distribution. The purpose of the Changes file is to help a user figure out what has changed since the last release. People have devised many ways to write the Changes file. A preliminary specification has been created (CPAN::Changes::Spec) to encourage module authors to write clear and concise Changes. This module will help users programmatically read and write Changes files that conform to the specification.
Version objects were added to Perl in 5.10. This module implements version objects for older version of Perl and provides the version object API for all versions of Perl. All previous releases before 0.74 are deprecated and should not be used due to incompatible API changes. Version 0.77 introduces the new 'parse' and 'declare' methods to standardize usage. You are strongly urged to set 0.77 as a minimum in your code, e.g. use version 0.77; # even for Perl v.5.10.0
This package is the shared library for perl.
Common Scalar and List utility subroutines
This package contains a selection of subroutines that people have expressed would be nice to have in the perl core, but the usage would not really be high enough to warrant the use of a keyword, and the size so small such that being individual extensions would be wasteful.
Print a usage message from embedded pod documentation
Pod2usage will print a usage message for the invoking script (using its embedded pod documentation) and then exit the script with the desired exit status. The usage message printed may have any one of three levels of "verboseness": If the verbose level is 0, then only a synopsis is printed. If the verbose level is 1, then the synopsis is printed along with a description (if present) of the command line options and arguments. If the verbose level is 2, then the entire manual page is printed.
Extended processing of command line options
Module Getopt::Long implements an extended getopt function called GetOptions(). This function implements the POSIX standard for command line options, with GNU extensions, while still capable of handling the traditional one-letter options.
The Encode module provides the interface between Perl strings and the rest of the system. Perl strings are sequences of characters.
Text::Tabs does most of what the unix utilities expand(1) and unexpand(1) do. Given a line with tabs in it, expand replaces those tabs with the appropriate number of spaces. Given a line with or without tabs in it, unexpand adds tabs when it can save bytes by doing so, like the unexpand -a command. Unlike the old unix utilities, this module correctly accounts for any Unicode combining characters (such as diacriticals) that may occur in each line for both expansion and unexpansion. These are overstrike characters that do not increment the logical position. Make sure you have the appropriate Unicode settings enabled.