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+# Copyright 2013-2024 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class PerlStringNumeric(PerlPackage):
+    """Determine whether a string represents a numeric value"""
+
+    homepage = "https://metacpan.org/pod/String::Numeric"
+    url = "https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CH/CHANSEN/String-Numeric-0.9.tar.gz"
+
+    maintainers("EbiArnie")
+
+    license("Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later")
+
+    version("0.9", sha256="b992b6611a070e8cd887bc1c7409f22443c115e44245a5c67fb43535b5e0cfdb")
+
+    depends_on("perl@5.6.0:", type=("build", "link", "run", "test"))
+    depends_on("perl-test-exception", type=("build", "link"))
+
+    def test_use(self):
+        """Test 'use module'"""
+        options = ["-we", 'use strict; use String::Numeric; print("OK\n")']
+
+        perl = self.spec["perl"].command
+        out = perl(*options, output=str.split, error=str.split)
+        assert "OK" in out