Reading a file's last-modified time in Perl

[mdharrold]

Do you have a fix for this, Sugarkane?

List files based on modification date.

The only perl thing I can find is utime and all of the documentation I have seen on this tells how to modify existing times rather than retrieve existing times.

[sugarkane]

Check out the 'stat' function (perldoc -f stat). Briefly, it returns an array full of useful info about a file:
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@array=stat($filehandle);
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The modification time is stored in unix format in $array[9]

[Brett_Tabke]

Or explicitly:

($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,$atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) = stat($filepath);

[mdharrold]

This looks like a really bad way to handle a large amount of files.

[DrDoc]

Well, you can always list them using eval() and the *nix ls command .. and just filter the output ..