I've found it a common requirement to detemine which version of a module is installed (and even which of a number of installed versions perl will actually use). To this end I use the following bash function (it's set in my .bashrc)

pmv ()
{ 
    perl -M$1 -e "print \$$1::VERSION . qq/\n/;"
}
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It's very simple then to retrieve the version number by just supplying the module name as the argument to the function:

$ pmv Getopt::Std
1.10
$
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It ought to be easy enough to convert this to other shells for non-bash users. HTH.

Hi wackattack,

You can do this:

use Getopt::Std;
print "$Getopt::Std::VERSION\n";
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However, looking at the version number like that is usually not necessary unless you're testing or debugging. Why do you need it? If you want to specify a minimum version required for your script, you can say something like:

use Getopt::Std 1.07;
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Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

More on that—oneliner to get module version, Heh-heh-heh, heh-heh. I said "moron." There are a few others threads discussing this if you want to search for more.