I bet searching here on monks would have given you a few examples of how monks do this. There is a plethora of scripts available by now as there are many ways to answer the question.
I also wrote a script myself, but with a few additions to make it easier to find module not (yet) installed, so that I don't have to dig on CPAN when I'm looking for a module that does XML/XPM/CSV/mysql/...
Note that my script works based on the list of modules available as seen by CPAN, so it will not find modules that were manually copied into the perl tree.
$ modlist -?
usage: modlist [ -a AUT ] [ -r ] [ -i ] [ -nc ] [ <pattern> ]
-a | --author=AUTHOR_ID Only modules from author
-r | --registered Only registered modules
-i | --installed Only installed modules
-n | --new Only new modules
-c | --csv Output module and version as CSV
<pattern> Only modules that match pattern
$ modlist -i xpm
Module name Description
+ Version
Bundle::Image::Info::XPM
+ 0.01
Image::Info::XPM
+ 1.07
Image::Xpm
+ 1.12
Tk::XPMs
+ 1.11
$ modlist -r peek
Module name Description
+ Version
Apache::Peek Devel::Peek for mod_perl
Data::Peek A collection of low-level debug facilities
+ 0.31
Devel::Peek Peek at internal representation of Perl data
+ 1.04
Core since 5.006 1.00_01 in 5.010001
+ 1.04
POE::API::Peek Peek into the internals of a running POE env
$
It also does colorizing (when available), shows if it is a CORE module (using Module::Corelist), since when and what version in core,
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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