Re: how to determine whether a module is installed or not?

Something like:

if (eval {require 'Text/LevenshteinXS.pm'}) {
    Text::LevenshteinXS::import('distance');
} elsif (eval {require 'Text/Levenshtein.pm'}) {
    Text::Levenshtein::import('distance');
} else {
    *distance = \&myDistanceSub;
}
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True laziness is hard work

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Re^2: how to determine whether a module is installed or not? by slayedbylucifer (Scribe) on Dec 28, 2010 at 06:50 UTC
I found this on Google. this perl oneliner will list all the installed modules on your system (Linux). then you can grep for whatever module your are looking for. `perl -MFile::Find=find -MFile::Spec::Functions -Tlwe 'find { wanted => + sub { print canonpath $_ if /\.pm\z/ }, no_chdir => 1 }, @INC'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: how to determine whether a module is installed or not? by tilly (Archbishop) on Dec 28, 2010 at 07:29 UTC
That is an extremely inefficient solution.	[reply]