Assume you want to know whether Regexp::Common is pure perl. Fire up the CPAN shell, and issue the following command: 
cpan> m Regexp::Common
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /opt/perl/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:19:32 GMT
Module id = Regexp::Common
    DESCRIPTION  Provide commonly requested regular expr.
    CPAN_USERID  ABIGAIL (Abigail <abigail@foad.org>)
    CPAN_VERSION 2.104
    CPAN_FILE    A/AB/ABIGAIL/Regexp-Common-2.104.tar.gz
    DSLI_STATUS  RdpO (released,developer,perl,object-oriented)
    MANPAGE      Regexp::Common - Provide commonly requested regular e
+xpressions
    INST_FILE    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/Regexp/Common.pm
    INST_VERSION 1.20


cpan>

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It's the DSLI_STATUS line that we are interested in. The third letter is p, meaning it's a pure Perl module.

Abigail

In reply to Re: The quest for pure perl by Abigail-II
in thread The quest for pure perl by rinceWind

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