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NAME

CPAN::Nearest - find the nearest module to a given name.

SYNOPSIS

use CPAN::Nearest 'search';
my $module = search ('02package.details.txt', 'Lingua::Stop::Wars');
# Now $module = "Lingua::StopWords";

FUNCTIONS

my $close_name = search ($file, $module_name);

Search the package detail file $file for a module named $module_name and return the closest name. E.g. if you search for "Harry::Potter", the closest module is "Data::Lotter".

The file specified by the first argument, $file in the example, is usually found at ~/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz on a Unix-like system. This may be specified as the file name. To retrieve the results faster, specify an uncompressed version of this file.

AUTHOR

Ben Bullock, <bkb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENCE

This package and associated files are copyright (C) 2012 Ben Bullock.

You can use, copy, modify and redistribute this package and associated files under the Perl Artistic Licence or the GNU General Public Licence.