Print the versions of installed Perl modules

This Perl program prints out the versions of installed modules. You give it a list of modules on the command line, and it outputs the modules and their versions, or an error message if the module is not installed.

The output is formatted so that it can be copied and pasted directly into the PREREQ_PM of Makefile.PL. See The files in a Perl module for more about CPAN files.

#!/home/ben/software/install/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my @modules = @ARGV;
for my $module (@modules) {
    eval "require $module";
    if ($@) {
        my $error = $@;
        if ($error =~ /Can't locate/) {
            warn "$module is not installed.\n";
        }
        else {
            warn "$module had a problem: $@.\n";
        }
        next;
    }
    my $version = $module->VERSION ();
    print "'$module' => '$version',\n";
}

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The program output looks like this:

$ perl module-version.pl Gzip::Faster Template Scalar::Util
'Gzip::Faster' => '0.14',
'Template' => '2.26',
'Scalar::Util' => '1.42',

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• How can I find the version of an installed Perl module?

  The above script builds on the answer in this web page by jmcnamara.