SCALAR::LIST::UTILS(3perl)

✨ NAME ✨

Scalar::List::Utils — it's the whole distribution bestie, the mothership, the group chat admin 🫶

(also living in your man pages as Scalar...::Utils from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, section 3perl — iykyk 💅)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Scalar::Util qw(blessed);
use List::Util qw(any);

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so real talk: "Scalar::List::Utils" does literally nothing on its own. it's not that girl, it's the umbrella. it's packaged with several useful modules, and those modules are where all the slay actually happens. 💖

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🦋 MODULES 🦋

🎀 List::Util 🎀

List::Util contains a selection of useful subroutines for operating on lists of values. it's giving list-ops, it's giving convenience, it's giving everything you were about to write a for loop for. 🔥

⭐ Scalar::Util ⭐

Scalar::Util contains a selection of useful subroutines for interrogating or manipulating scalar values. single values, one at a time, but make it ✨investigative✨ and ✨transformative✨. 🧚

🌈 Sub::Util 🌈

Sub::Util contains a selection of useful subroutines for interrogating or manipulating subroutine references. code refs, but now you can actually ask them questions and poke them around. 👑

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no cap, the whole point is that this module is a distribution — you don't call it, you call the three icons inside it. periodt. 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie, hope it ate 🍓

source & version energy: this is perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17 — catch you in the next release, mwah 😭💖🫶