Novice Question

ozz232 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello .. I am a new learner of Perl. I would like to know if there is a way/tool to check what all functions are supported by a library or object in Perl. Something like an "Object Explorer" from .net world, which gives me all the details of a particular library or a class. Thanks in advance. Oz

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Re: Novice Question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 04, 2011 at 20:47 UTC
Parameters aren't typed in Perl, so sub usage cannot be divined from their declarations. (One can't even tell if a sub is a method or not from looking at its declaration.) As such, this information must be communicated in the documentation. This can be accessed using `perldoc Module::Name` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Novice Question by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2011 at 20:15 UTC
Module::Info	[reply]
Re^2: Novice Question by ozz232 (Initiate) on Jul 04, 2011 at 20:30 UTC
Thanks. Is there a tool to use around it?	[reply]
Re^3: Novice Question by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2011 at 22:58 UTC
http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Module-Info-0.32/bin/module_info http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Module-Info-0.32/bin/pfunc	[reply]