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URI::cpan(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation URI::cpan(3pm)

URI::cpan - URLs that refer to things on the CPAN

version 1.007

  use URI::cpan;
  my $uri = URI->new('cpan:///distfile/RJBS/URI-cpan-1.000.tar.gz');
  $uri->author;       # => RJBS
  $uri->dist_name;    # => URI-cpan
  $uri->dist_version; # => 1.000

Other forms of cpan: URI include:

  cpan:///author/RJBS

Reserved for likely future use are:

  cpan:///dist
  cpan:///module
  cpan:///package

URI 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 This means that you can probably alter a URI::cpan object into a state where it is no longer valid.

Please don't change the contents of these objects after construction.

URI::cpan::author and URI::cpan::distfile

This code is derived from code written at Pobox.com by Hans Dieter Pearcey. Dieter helped thrash out this new implementation, too.

Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>

This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Ricardo SIGNES.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2020-10-21 perl v5.30.3