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Manual Reference Pages  - CPAN::API::HOWTO (3)

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CPAN::API::HOWTO - a recipe book for programming with CPAN.pm

CONTENTS

All of these recipes assume that you have put use CPAN at the top of your program.

    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.

    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.

the main CPAN.pm documentation

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

David Cantrell

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