perltutorial Ovid <p>Short and to the point. This is probably too simple to deserve the title of "Tutorial", but this is where this is where some Monks look.</p> <p>I've noticed that occassionally people try to use the command line, but don't quite "get" how to use modules and the import list. It's fairly simple. Use the <tt>-M</tt> command line switch, followed by the module name. For example, the following are equivalent:</p> <code> use LWP::Simple; getprint( "http://www.perlmonks.org/" ); # command line: perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getprint( "http://www.perlmonks.org/" )' </code> <p>Some modules either require an import list be specified or are easier to use with an import list. In this case, use the <tt>-M</tt> switch followed by an '=', with import items separated by commas.</p> <code> use CGI qw/:standard *table/; print start_table( { border => 2 } ); # command line perl -MCGI=:standard,*table -e 'print start_table({-border=>2})' </code> <p>There, that wasn't too painful, was it?</p>