On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Adedayo Adeyeye wrote:
=>Thanks Dwalu.
=>
=>Still didn't work. However, I removed use File::stat and everything works
=>fine now.
=>
=>Kind regards
=>
=>Dayo
=>
Apologies Dayo. I took a quick glance and missed the 'use File::stat'.
Here's the quick explanation of what was happening:
perl provides a builtin function, stat, that returns a list of file
information so your original line of
==>($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size, $atime, $mtime,
==>$ctime, $blksize, $blocks)=stat("Perfect.xls");
would have worked just fine on its own. (As you've just found out)
The module, File::stat, overrides (replaces) perl's core function with one
that returns an object so you'd need something like:
use File::stat;
my $fs = stat($filename);
print $fs->atime;
print $fs->mtime;
I hope that makes sense now and clears up the previous confusion but it's
much better explained via "perldoc File::stat".
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