Hi Monks,

Is there a CPAN module which extracts the author, module and version from strings like: 

MSERGEANT/Time-Piece-1.20.tar.gz
http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/A/AR/ARANDAL/Pod-Simple-3.07.tar.gz
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TE/TELS/math/Math-BigInt-1.89
+.tar.gz

[download]

Are there any other odd-ball cases like the Math-BigInt url?

Alternatively, what's your favorite method/regexp to parse them?

Note: I realize that the _correct_ module and version won't always be derivable from the CPAN url, but I am only looking for something which gives the best guess at what they should be.

In reply to parsing CPAN urls by perl5ever

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