How do I get a list of installed CPAN modules?

Question

Aside from trying

perldoc 

individually for any CPAN module that takes my fancy or going through the file system and loo

Answer 1

Here a script which would do the trick:

use ExtUtils::Installed;

my $inst = ExtUtils::Installed->new();
my @modules = $inst->modules();
foreach $module (@modules){
       print $module ." - ". $inst->version($module). "\n";
}

=head1 ABOUT

This scripts lists installed cpan modules using the ExtUtils modules

=head1 FORMAT

Prints each module in the following format
 - 

=cut