Show available module objects.

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Re: Show available module objects. by Thilosophy (Curate) on Dec 28, 2004 at 09:18 UTC
Devel::Symdump lets you examine all the symbols in a package. `use Devel::Symdump; use CGI; my $obj = Devel::Symdump->new('CGI'); $obj->as_string` [download] produces `arrays CGI::ISA CGI::QUERY_PARAM functions CGI::AUTOLOAD CGI::DESTROY CGI::XHTML_DTD CGI::_checked (...) CGI::to_filehandle CGI::unescape hashes CGI::EXPORT CGI::EXPORT_OK CGI::EXPORT_TAGS CGI::QUERY_FIELDNAMES CGI::QUERY_PARAM ios packages CGI::Util scalars CGI::AUTOLOAD CGI::AUTOLOADED_ROUTINES CGI::AUTOLOAD_DEBUG CGI::AutoloadClass CGI::BEEN_THERE CGI::BEGIN CGI::CGI (...) CGI::to_filehandle CGI::unescape unknowns` [download] Note that AUTOLOAD'ed subroutines will not be shown, and that without the documentation you still have no idea what these symbols are for, and which and how to use them. `perldoc ModuleName` should bring up the module documentation pretty fast.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Show available module objects. by Joost (Canon) on Dec 28, 2004 at 15:02 UTC
To see the documented API of a module: `perldoc Some::Module` [download] To see all standard modules and pragmata: `perldoc perlmodlib` [download] To see all locally installed modules: `perldoc perllocal` [download] Practically any module can be found and it's documentation browsed at http://search.cpan.org "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l] [select]