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.IX Title "URI::cpan 3pm"
.TH URI::cpan 3pm "2020-10-21" "perl v5.30.3" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
URI::cpan \- URLs that refer to things on the CPAN
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 1.007
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\&  use URI::cpan;
\&
\&  my $uri = URI\->new(\*(Aqcpan:///distfile/RJBS/URI\-cpan\-1.000.tar.gz\*(Aq);
\&
\&  $uri\->author;       # => RJBS
\&  $uri\->dist_name;    # => URI\-cpan
\&  $uri\->dist_version; # => 1.000
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Other forms of cpan: \s-1URI\s0 include:
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.Vb 1
\&  cpan:///author/RJBS
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Reserved for likely future use are:
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\&  cpan:///dist
\&  cpan:///module
\&  cpan:///package
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.SH "WARNINGS"
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\&\s-1URI\s0 objects are difficult to subclass, so I have not (yet?) taken the time to
remove mutability from the objects.  This means that you can probably alter a
URI::cpan object into a state where it is no longer valid.
.PP
Please don't change the contents of these objects after construction.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
URI::cpan::author and URI::cpan::distfile
.SH "THANKS"
.IX Header "THANKS"
This code is derived from code written at Pobox.com by Hans Dieter Pearcey.
Dieter helped thrash out this new implementation, too.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Ricardo \s-1SIGNES\s0 <rjbs@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Ricardo \s-1SIGNES.\s0
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.