Re: Perl Stat Issue

[thundergnat]

The files are not in the current directory. You need to supply the path to stat as well.

Probably something like:

use File::stat;

my $path = '/to/my/directory';

opendir(DIR, $path) or die("Cannot open directory"); 
my @files= readdir(DIR); 
closedir DIR;

foreach my $file (@files) {
my $mod = (stat("$path/$file"))[9];
print "Filename $file has the mod date of $mod \n";
}

[omegaweaponZ]

I tried this. It also comes back completely blank, as if File::stat has some critical error even though it seems up to date. This is my output. $stat is just not working. What is the best way to diagnose this?

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at test.pl l
+ine 11.
Filename test.txt has the mod date of