A bit late to this party but to answer your question, yes, both cpan and cpanm perform the build, test and install phases by default.

As far as remembering the manual process, if it's an ExtUtils::MakeMaker based module (ie. has a Makefile.PL the process is simply:

perl Makefile.PL
dmake
dmake test
dmake install

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You can simply throw that into a batch script if you can't remember ;)

Learning how to write unit tests and manually run them both individually and as a collection is one of the first things one should learn when getting serious about writing code (not just Perl, but any language). Take the time... it is time very well spent.

In reply to Re^5: Remove Tabs and Newlines Inside Fields of Text Tab Delimited Files from Excel by stevieb
in thread Remove Tabs and Newlines Inside Fields of Text Tab Delimited Files from Excel by perldigious

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