Looking to find CPAN module functionality to avoid even more CPAN duplication

[Dana Diederich]

In short, there's a series of Perl modules that I end up re-implementing at
every company I end up working at. This time around, I want to develop
them as CPAN modules. Except:

A lot of this is pretty simple, straightforward stuff, and I feel there's
at least a fair chance some of it already exists, at least in a form that's
close enough to what I'm looking for.

I have rolled through the thousands of CPAN modules, but there's a good
chance I'm missing some possible duplication.

My question: what's the best way for me to, given some simple tests and/or
descriptions, find out if there's already some modules out there? This
seems like a lazy request, and perhaps it is, but I'm asking the question
in case there is such a resource.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-Dana

[Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯]

> given some simple tests
> and/or descriptions, find out if there's already some modules out
> there?

Let other programmers have a look at the tests and descriptions whether
that reminds someone of existing solutions.

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