L(3pm)

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version 1.0.1 · 2 versions
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✨ L ✨

okay bestie so this is the manual for L, a Perl extension that loads modules automatically in one-liners 💖 (the manual page header literally calls it L(3pm), and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the world 🎀).

🌸 NAME 🌸

L — a Perl extension that auto-loads modules for you in one-liners. no cap 🫶

🦋 VERSION 🦋

This doc describes L version v1.0.1. iconic behavior, honestly 👑

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

% perl -ML -E 'say String::Random->new->randregex("[0-9a-zA-Z]{12}")'

look at her go 😭 so clean

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Module auto-loader for one-liners. that's the whole vibe ✨

⚠️ WARNING bestie, for real: This module is dangerous, so don't use this module in other perl modules, scripts or production code. This should be used only in one-liners. periodt. i'm not playing, do not put this in your prod codebase 🙈💀

🧚 DEPENDENCIES 🧚

Perl 5.8.1 or later. (yes, that old. she's vintage, she's serving 🌈)

🍓 BUGS 🍓

All complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception 💀. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT. slide into the bug tracker, it's fine 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • perl

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Masayuki Matsuki <y.songmu@gmail.com>

👑 CONTRIBUTORS 👑

Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom AAJKLFJEF@ GMAIL COM>

(Most of code is written by him.) — shoutout, main character energy fr fr 🔥

Copyright (c) 2012, Masayuki Matsuki. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

and that's the whole page bestie 💖 thanks for reading, ily, go write a one-liner ✨

this was L as documented with perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — take care of her, she's fragile and dangerous 🎀💅

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