Bob McGowan <ramjr0...@gmail.com> writes: > It looks like this has to do with mixing the usage of the "native" stat of > Perl with the "object" version from File::stat. > > > > The 'stat' from File::stat returns a reference to an object, which has the > stuff you're wanting, tucked away internally as object variables. You > need > to do: > > > use File::stat; > > $statRef = stat('testfile'); > > $mtime = $statRef->mtime () > > Hoping this helps. > > Bob
Thank you and thanks to Dave Sherohman <d...@sherohman.org> He wrote: > Your actual question has already been answered, but, for future > reference, PerlMonks (https://www.perlmonks.org/) is still around and > there are also several Perl folks who frequent StackOverflow > (https://stackoverflow.com/), so you can generally get good answers to > Perl questions pretty quickly from either of those sites. It worked perfectly plus I now much better understand how the pieces all fit together. Martin