Re^3: parse_dir doesn't seem to work

[Cubes]

I get the correct list returned (using 5.8.5) from parse_dir. Perhaps there's something it doesn't like about your brand of ls -l? Looks like there's a parameter to parse_dir to make it speak up on unparseable lines... does that help?

[nysus]

Yeah, that's it. Getting "Can't parse" errors. Weird. Here's a typical line:

Can't parse: -rw-r--r--  1 root            root            15264 2008-
+01-03 12:46 out

Thanks, man.

[randyk]

On my linux box, I can get such a listing via ls -l --time-style=long-iso, which in particular produces the 2008-01-03 date formatting. Do you have an alias for ls that includes a --time-style option?

[Cubes]

That date format looks odd... Without digging into the File::Listing code, I'd guess that's where it's choking.

[nysus]

Here's what worked for me:

$listing = `ls -l --time-style=locale`;

Thanks to everyone who chipped in to help me. I'm grateful.