CPAN::API::HOWTO(3p) | Perl Programmers Reference Guide | CPAN::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

2010-09-24 | perl v5.40.1