in reply to parsing CPAN urls

Why settle for a "best guess" when you can use CPAN::ParseDistribution! This is based on the code in PAUSE that indexes uploads.

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Re^2: parsing CPAN urls
by educated_foo (Vicar) on May 13, 2011 at 10:03 UTC
    Because you have to download the actual tarball to use it, while the OP only has a list of URLs or filenames.