I'm just a practical programmer, but this is what I do.

Read the perldoc which comes with the module, then look thru the module's source tree for directories or files with names like examples, cookbook, test, etc. In there you often will find many usages.

If those come up empty, I google for it, like google perl Json.pm and you will find code samples.

Module authors don't want to clutter their perldocs with too much example code, as it makes it harder to scan thru quickly. Plus many of them don't write English very well anyways. :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

In reply to Re: How to read CPAN documentation by zentara
in thread How to read CPAN documentation by perl.j

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