The modules I use most in my stand-alone scripts are: (list was generated by a script, strict and friends removed)

• Data::Dumper
• Pod::Usage
• File::Find
• Imager or GD (using Imager exclusively now)
• Parse::RecDescent (for fancy input parsing)
• Getopt::Long
• DBI
• DB_File (for hash-persistance)
• Config::IniFiles
• CGI
• HTML::Template
• File::Stream
• Tie::Hash::Abbrev (for shell like interfaces)
• File::Copy

In my modules (http://search.cpan.org/~smueller), I tend to require other modules: (hand-selected list)

• Carp
• Data::Dumper
• Test::More, Test::Distribution (staring to use this), Pod::Coverage
• Parse::RecDescent
• Imager, GD
• many modules in the Math::* section since I'm developing Math::* modules myself pretty actively. Examples: Math::Complex, Math::Approx, Math::Spline, Math::Big*, Math::MatrixReal, etc.
• perltidy (or Perl::Tidy), well, at least indirectly.
• and many more...

Steffen

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