Reference: a
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:28:58Z

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| Chapter 2 Installing Perl |

## a

    a [authorlist]

Searches for CPAN authors. Arguments can be strings to be matched exactly or regular expressions, which must be enclosed in slashes and are matched in case-insensitive fashion. With no arguments, it returns a list of all authors, by CPAN ID. With arguments, it returns a list of authors if there is more than one that matches the criteria, or it returns additional information if a single author is returned. String and regular expression arguments can be combined in the same command.

>     cpan> a /^nv/ LWALL
>     Author          NVPAT (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
>     Author          LWALL (Larry Wall. Author of Perl. Busy man.)
>     cpan> a /^nv/
>     Author id = NVPAT
>         EMAIL        nvp@ora.com
>         FULLNAME     Nathan V. Patwardhan

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