Hi,
> > I'm thinking on incorporating a timestamp sorting mechanism without
> > slurping.
>
> You wouldn't slurp anything. You would just assign the _names_ of the
> files to an array. Why would that be so bad?
>
If you have that much files that you do not want to put all names in an
array you could do following: (pseudocode)
1. open your directory
2. my $mtime_var, $filename;
2. read one/next file.
3. get mtime of file
4. if($mtime_var == 0) { $mtime_var = mtime of file }
5. if($mtime_var > mtime of file) { $mtime_var = mtime_of file; $filename =
name of file }
6. goto 2.
note: do not store your file in an array if you do the sorting that way.
you 'll end with an array with all files in it; so you will not save any
memory!!
HTH Martin
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