Try putting a copy of 1.log in your working directory as well as having it in your faraway directory. For me, the 1.log will always appear first on the sort.
--Paul -----Original Message----- From: Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:35 PM Posted To: Perl Conversation: Problem with READDIR Subject: Re: Problem with READDIR On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:07:26 -0800 "Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $iisdir = '\\\server01\c$\winnt\system32\logfiles\W3SVC1'; > opendir LOGS, "$iisdir" or die "Directory error for IIS LOGS: $!\n"; > > my @files = grep /\.log$/, readdir LOGS; > @files = sort { -M $a <=> -M $b } @files; > $active_log = $files[-1]; # this should be the newest file rather than > a log in the local directory that the script is running from. I was unable to duplicate your problem. Made 5 files 1.log .. 5.log that order and in a faraway directory, and then 6.log in the working directory. "5.log" came up every time -- Owen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
