When trying to locate the version number I keep using this: 
perl -MLong::And::Stupid::Module::Name -e "print $Long::And::Stupid::M
+odule::Name::VERSION"

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on Windows and 
perl -MLong::And::Stupid::Module::Name -e 'print $Long::And::Stupid::M
+odule::Name::VERSION'

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on Linux I even have a small shell script doing this for me but it is not always with me. 
#! /bin/sh
perl -m$1 -le 'print '$1'->VERSION || die "No VERSION in '$1'\n"'

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Is there any better way to do that?

perldoc showing version number?

In many modules I see people embed the version number in the POD so the reader will know. This can quickly get out of sync with the real version number. Would it be better/possible to have perldoc extract the version number of a module - when displaying the docs of a module - and show that along the documentation?

In reply to How to get the version of an installed module? by szabgab

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