NAME
Parse::CPAN::Modlist - Parse 03packages.data.gz
SYNOPSIS
use Parse::CPAN::Modlist;
my $p = Parse::CPAN::Modlist->new("t/data/03modlist.data");
foreach my $name ($p->modules) {
my $module = $p->module($name);
print " The module '".$module->name."'".
" is written by ".$module->author.
" and is described as '".$module->description.
"'\n";
}DESCRIPTION
The CPAN module list is a non-comprehensive list of modules on CPAN.
Or, more exactly, it's a comprehensive list of registered modules on CPAN.
http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html has more details.
Methods
new <filename|data>
Creates a new Parse::CPAN::Modlist object and parses the data passed in.
You can either pass in the path to a (not gzipped) file or the data from an 03modlist.data file.
parse
Internal method which parses the 03modlist.data file.
Called automatically by new.
module <module name>
Returns a Parse::CPAN::Modlist::Module object representing the module name passed in or undef if that module is not in the module list.
modules
Returns a list of the names of all modules in the module list
BUGS
None that I know of.
COPYING
Distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2004,
Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>
based on code from CPANPLUS by Jos Boumans.