actions-marketplace-validations/Setup Perl environment

Setup a Perl environment and add it to the PATH

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uses: actions-marketplace-validations/shogo82148_actions-setup-perl@47b10f194bb04a0320f00ff4f703dde7a0dccd31 # no releases — HEAD as of 2026-07-13

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name	description	required	default
github-token	The GitHub token to use for verifying the perl binary.	—	${{ github.token }}
perl-version	The Perl version to download (if necessary) and use. Example: 5.30.0	no	—
perl-version-file	File containing the Perl version. Example: .perl-version	no	—
distribution	The distribution of Perl binary. "default" and "strawberry" are accepted. "default" is the custom binaries for actions-setup-perl. It is available on Linux, macOS, and Windows. "strawberry" is from http://strawberryperl.com/ . It is available on Windows and falls back to default on other platform.	no	default
multi-thread	enables multi threading options(-Duseithreads). "true" and "false" are accepted. On Linux and macOS, the default value is false (multi threading is disabled). On Windows, this option is ignored, multi-threading is always enabled.	no	—
install-modules-with	install CPAN modules from your cpanfile with the specified installer. cpanm(App::cpanminus), cpm(App::cpm), and carton(Carton) are available. By default, any CPAN modules are not installed.	no	—
install-modules-args	extra argument for CPAN module installer.	no	—
install-modules	List of one or more CPAN modules, separated by a newline \n character.	no	—
enable-modules-cache	enable caching when install CPAN modules.	no	true
working-directory	working directory.	no	.

name	description
perl-version	The version of perl actually installed.
perl-hash	The digest of perl -V. It contains useful information to use as the cache key, e.g. the platform, the version of perl, the compiler option for building perl.
cache-hit	A boolean value to indicate if a cache was hit