Let's suppose that I am taking over maintenance of a CPAN distribution from its author or previous maintainer. Is there a practical way to search CPAN to uncover modules which use the module I'm now maintaining?

Granted, I could go to search.cpan.org and fill in my module's name in the "All" pane. But that only returns a list in the form of a web page. I'd like something more like that site's "grep" tool, i.e., something that would show me files and line numbers -- but for all of CPAN at once rather than one distro at a time. And I'd like something that returns plain-text so it's easy to manipulate further.

It seems like this should have been invented already. Ideas?

Thank you very much.

Jim Keenan

In reply to Searching CPAN for instances of dependencies on a module by jkeenan1

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