When I run the perl script provided by Fastolfe I get some extra output in the results: 
dal1:/home/user1 % perlmodver.pl CPAN
Module                Installed       CPAN
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.13)
Going to read /home/user1/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:38:06 GMT
CPAN                     1.9205     1.9205
dal1:/home/user1 %

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Is there a simple way to discard this additional text?

In reply to Re^2: Find perl module version from command-line by cld
in thread Find perl module version from command-line by lachoy

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