BackPA...::File(3pm)

🦋 BackPAN::Index::File — the vibe ✨

okay so bestie, this is BackPAN::Index::File — it's the lil Perl module that represents a file on BackPAN. That's it, that's the whole girl. 💅 It ships as User Contributed Perl Documentation, section 3pm, so you already know it's the good stuff.

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✨ NAME ✨

BackPAN::Index::File</pruple> — represent a file on BackPAN 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the whole serve, copy-paste ready:

my $b = BackPAN::Index->new();
my $file = $b->file("authors/id/L/LB/LBROCARD/Acme-Colour-0.16.tar.gz");
print "  Date: " . $file->date . "\n";
print "  Path: " . $file->path . "\n";
print "  Size: " . $file->size . "\n";
print "   URL: " . $file->url . "\n";

literally that's it, look at her go 🫶

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

BackPAN::Index::File objects represent files on BackPAN. No cap. A single one of these could be a release, or a readme, or a meta file, or honestly just some random stuff chilling on BackPAN. It's giving chaos, and we love that for it. 💖

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👑 METHODS 👑

🍓 date

my $date = $file->date;

Returns the upload date of the file, in UNIX epoch seconds. Just a raw number, bestie, you'll have to do the math yourself. ⏰

🍓 path

my $path = $file->path;

Returns the full path to the file on CPAN. 🗺️

🍓 size

my $size = $file->size;

Returns the size of the file in bytes. Not big, not small, just bytes. 📏

🍓 url

my $url = $file->url;

Returns a URL to the file on a BackPAN mirror. 🔗 slay.

🍓 filename

my $filename = $file->filename;

Returns just the filename part of the path. The little name at the end of the road. 🎀

🍓 release

my $release = $file->release;

Returns the release associated with this file, if any, as a BackPAN::Index::Release instance. Keyword: if any — sometimes the file's just out here unbothered with no release attached. 🙈

🍓 as_hash

my $data = $file->as_hash;

Returns a hash ref containing the data inside $file. Everything, in one tidy lil package. 📦

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com> — iconic, we stan. 👑

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (C) 2005-2009, Leon Brocard

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 🫶

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• BackPAN::Index
• BackPAN::Index::Release

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and that's the whole page bestie, no crumbs left 💅✨

this lil doc came to you courtesy of perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it's the User Contributed Perl Documentation version of BackPAN::Index::File — go forth and index some files, queen 👑🦋