Can you explain what is meant by a "Perl Library"? 2

[garymgordon]

Please explain what a Perl Library is and how it differs from a Perl Module or Perl script??

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[mbaranski]

A good book for this is the Orielly Perl Cookbook
a good compaion to their Learning Perl, Mastering Regular Expressions, Perl DBI, and Advanced Perl Programming.

I think that a module is a file that contains functions in objects, which are collecively called a library.
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[garymgordon]

So, a library is simply a collection of modules??

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[stillflame]

it is, in general, to be understood as a module, or a set of modules. when you say 'use', the thing that follows can be referred to as a library most of the time.
when you say 'use lib ("directory"' you tell perl to look in that directory for libraries, or, modules.
well, i don't know of any difference in meaning between the two. there may be in some circumstances. "If you think you're too small to make a difference, try spending a night in a closed tent with a mosquito."