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viffer has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all I am trying to obtain a time stamp using File::stat.

I am obtaining values in the array, but when I try and access individual fields they return undef. 

my $filename = "$directory$file";
my @array=stat($filename);

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returns 
  DB<2> x @array
0  File::stat=ARRAY(0x3055e8e4)
   0  1638407
   1  281494
   2  33188
   3  1
   4  500
   5  1231
   6  0
   7  97900
   8  1375400720
   9  1375371182
   10  1375371182
   11  4096
   12  192

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yet when I try and access a value in the array, via 
my $time = $array[9];

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it returns undef.

I have since found that 

 my $time = $array[0][9]

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does indeed return the value "1375371182"

Similarly when using 

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

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stat returns undef in all fields.

I kind of get that it's returned a two dimensional array, but I don't really follow why the code above doesn't appear to work?

hellllp! :)

Thanks Kev

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Re: Stat - returning undef values (NOT)
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 02, 2013 at 03:37 UTC
    You're not dealing with stat, you're dealing with File::stat, their usages are different
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      Thanks - deleted the use File::stat line and all works.
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