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.IX Title "CPAN::API::HOWTO 3perl"
.TH CPAN::API::HOWTO 3perl 2023-11-30 "perl v5.38.2" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide"
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.SH NAME
CPAN::API::HOWTO \- a recipe book for programming with CPAN.pm
.SH RECIPES
.IX Header "RECIPES"
All of these recipes assume that you have put "use CPAN" at the top of
your program.
.SS "What distribution contains a particular module?"
.IX Subsection "What distribution contains a particular module?"
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\&    my $distribution = CPAN::Shell\->expand(
\&        "Module", "Data::UUID"
\&    )\->distribution()\->pretty_id();
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.PP
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
\&\f(CW\*(C`.../authors/id/A/AU/AUTHORID/TARBALL\*(C'\fR.
.SS "What modules does a particular distribution contain?"
.IX Subsection "What modules does a particular distribution contain?"
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\&    CPAN::Index\->reload();
\&    my @modules = CPAN::Shell\->expand(
\&        "Distribution", "JHI/Graph\-0.83.tar.gz"
\&    )\->containsmods();
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.PP
You may also refer to a distribution in the form A/AU/AUTHORID/TARBALL.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
the main CPAN.pm documentation
.SH LICENSE
.IX Header "LICENSE"
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
.PP
See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
David Cantrell