That's JSON. JSON ought to do the trick, or minimally JSON::Tiny:


use Data::Dumper;
use JSON::Tiny;

my $json = do { local $/ = undef; <DATA>; };

my $hash = JSON::Tiny->new->decode($json);

print Dumper $hash;


__DATA__
{
   "abstract" : "Regexp Capture Filter For Message::Passing",
   "author" : [
      "chenryn <rao.chenlin@gmail.com>"
   ],
   "dynamic_config" : 1,
   "generated_by" : "ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.62, CPAN::Meta::Con
+verter version 2.112150",
   "license" : [
      "unknown"
   ],
   "meta-spec" : {
      "url" : "http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CPAN::Meta::Spec",
      "version" : "2"
   },
   "name" : "Message-Passing-Filter-Regexp",
   "no_index" : {
      "directory" : [
         "t",
         "inc"
      ]
   },
   "prereqs" : {
      "build" : {
         "requires" : {
            "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" : 0
         }
      },
      "configure" : {
         "requires" : {
            "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" : 0
         }
      },
      "runtime" : {
         "requires" : {
            "Config::Tiny" : 0,
            "JSON::Types" : 0,
            "Message::Passing" : "0.11",
            "Regexp::Log" : 0
         }
      }
   },
   "release_status" : "stable",
   "version" : "0.02"
}

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I won't bother dumping the output here, but it does work. ;)

As for understanding the spec itself, there's CPAN::Meta::Spec

Or more minimally, as a one-liner: perl -0777 -MData::Dumper -MJSON::Tiny -e 'print Dumper( JSON::Tiny->new->decode( <> ) );' file.txt

Dave

In reply to Re: How do I parse CPAN .meta files by davido
in thread How do I parse CPAN .meta files by 1arryb

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