Contents at a Glance

About the Author 

................................................................................................. xi

About the Technical Reviewers  

................................................................ xiii

Acknowledgments 

...................................................................................................xv

Introduction 

...................................................................................................... xvii

Chapter 1

CPAN 

............................................................................................... 1

Chapter 2

Perl Module Basics 

............................................................... 21

Chapter 3

Module Design and Implementation 

................................ 65

Chapter 4

CPAN Module Distributions 

............................................... 95

Chapter 5

Submitting Your Module to CPAN 

................................... 129

Chapter 6

Module Maintenance 

............................................................. 139

Chapter 7

Great CPAN Modules 

............................................................. 165

Chapter 8

Programming Perl in C 

...................................................... 175

Chapter 9

Writing C Modules with XS 

............................................. 205

Chapter 10

Writing C Modules with Inline::C 

.............................. 237

Chapter 11

CGI Application Modules for CPAN 

.............................. 253

Index 

...................................................................................................................... 273

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