Release Notes - New Features - Perl 5.8.0 -
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Perl 5.8.0

The NerveCenter Perl interpreter has been upgraded to Perl version 5.8.0. This upgrade makes many more modules available to you for use in your Perl code used in trap mask functions, Perl subroutines, and poll conditions. Some of the modules now available are:

Carp	CGI
Constant	Cwd
DirHandle	Exporter
Fcntl	Data::Dumper
Digest::MD5	IO::Socket
Net::FTP	Net::SMTP
Net::SNMP	Net::POP3

For information about Perl version 5.8.0, including new modules and how to use them and code depreciations which might affect your existing Perl code, see the Perl document perldelta for version 5.8.0. The document perldelta is available in the Perl distribution or from web sites about Perl such as http://dev.perl.org.