CPAN::API::HOWTO(Perl Programmers Reference GCPAN::API::HOWTO(3p)


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.

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

AUTHOR
       David Cantrell

















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