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in reply to Re^2: Testing for valid package names
in thread Testing for valid package names

This might give you a nice index object to run your search against:
CPAN-Index-API.

--Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use Perl::Always or die;
my $perl_version = (5.12.5);
print $perl_version;