Manpages - CPAN_API_HOWTO.3perl
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NAME
CPAN::API::HOWTO - a recipe book for programming with CPAN.pm
RECIPES
All of these recipes assume that you have put use CPAN at the top of your program.
What distribution contains a particular module?
my $distribution = CPAN::Shell->expand( “Module”, “Data::UUID” )->distribution()->pretty_id();
This returns a string of the form AUTHORID/TARBALL. If you want the full
path and filename to this distribution on a CPAN mirror, then it is
.../authors/id/A/AU/AUTHORID/TARBALL.
What modules does a particular distribution contain?
CPAN::Index->reload(); my @modules = CPAN::Shell->expand( “Distribution”, “JHI/Graph-0.83.tar.gz” )->containsmods();
You may also refer to a distribution in the form A/AU/AUTHORID/TARBALL.
SEE ALSO
the main CPAN.pm documentation
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
David Cantrell