Hi folks

what does this do - what is it good for

http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Parse-CPAN-Authors-2.27/lib/Parse/CPAN/Authors.pm 

  use Parse::CPAN::Authors;

  # must have downloaded
  my $p = Parse::CPAN::Authors->new("01mailrc.txt.gz");
  # either a filename as above or pass in the contents of the file
  my $p = Parse::CPAN::Authors->new($mailrc_contents);

  my $author = $p->author('LBROCARD');
  # $a is a Parse::CPAN::Authors::Author object
  # ... objects are returned by Parse::CPAN::Authors
  print $author->email, "\n";   # leon@astray.com
  print $author->name, "\n";    # Leon Brocard
  print $author->pauseid, "\n"; # LBROCARD

  # all the author objects
  my @authors = $p->authors;

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DESCRIPTION: The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a very useful collection of Perl code. It has several indices of the files that it hosts, including a file named "01mailrc.txt.gz" in the "authors" directory. This file contains lots of useful information on CPAN authors and this module provides a simple interface to the data contained within.

Note that this module does not concern itself with downloading this file. You should do this yourself.

what does this do - what is it good for? Shed me a ligth. i guess that this informs about the authors etc.

In reply to Parse-CPAN-Authors::what does this do - what is it good for? by Perlbeginner1

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