...what kinds of things do you need to do with Perl?

I tried to address this with the following info from my post:

Some of the things that we do are: text-processing/parsing, sockets, config-file-reading, db (mysql) stuff, http-request-parsing, process-management, ssl and ssh, ...

I realize that's not a ton of info, but I'm trying not to reveal any sensitive company information here... basically I was just looking for generally useful modules, and I tried to give an idea of what we do, to help narrow down the criteria. I can't go describing exactly what we do and how we do it, but I'm looking for things that are handy for daemon processes, network communication, text-processing, some number handling (like 64-bit bitmap vectors), watching process status (number of threads, CPU usage), setting event timers, communicating with C-programs (are there any good alternatives to rolling-your-own message-handling routines with pack/unpack?), writing/reading to/from a DB, etc.

It's not about customers wanting features - it's about me as the perl-programmer having the maximum set of tools at my disposal rather than frequently having to roll-my-own due to lack of module-installation capability...

Is that enough info?