CPAN::...::Info(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

CPAN::SQLite::Info — bestie, this module extracts information from CPAN indices 💖 it's literally the little detective that reads the index files so you don't have to 🕵️♀️

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

version 0.220 — yes, that's the one, no cap ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe: this module pulls info out of the CPAN indices, specifically these two files:

• $CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
• $CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

You make a CPAN::SQLite::Info object like this 🦋:

my $info = CPAN::SQLite::Info->new(CPAN => $cpan);

where $cpan is the top-level CPAN directory that has the index files sitting underneath it. Then you call

$info->fetch_info();

and boom 💥 the object gets populated with 3 hash references. Three!! It's giving organized. It's giving prepared. 🫶

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💅 $info->{dists}

This one's all about distributions 🍓. The keys of this hash reference are the distribution names, and each value is a hash reference with these keys:

• "dist_vers" — the version of the CPAN file
• "dist_file" — the CPAN filename
• "cpanid" — the CPAN author id
• "dist_abs" — a description, if available
• "modules" — specifies the modules present in the distribution:

for my $module (keys %{$info->{$distname}->{modules}}) {
  print "Module: $module\n";
}

like look at that loop, it's so clean, it ate and left no crumbs 😭✨

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🌈 $info->{mods}

Modules edition 💜. Keys of this hash reference are the module names, and each associated value is a hash reference with keys of:

• "dist_name" — the distribution name containing the module
• "mod_vers" — the version
• "mod_abs" — a description, if available

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👑 $info->{auths}

The author corner 🎀. Keys of this hash reference are the CPAN ids, and each associated value is a hash reference with keys of:

• "fullname" — the author's full name
• "email" — the author's email address

main character energy for every single CPAN author, periodt 💖

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• CPAN::SQLite::Index — go read that one too bestie, it's right there 🫶

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and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-30 — catch you in the next manpage, iykyk 🌟