Shelling out for file lists is pretty inelegant. Built-in glob can handle that,
my @ll = map {
(glob "$path/$_")[0]
} qw/*B1006* *B1106-* *B11062*/;
You can dispense with the index $next by pushing elements onto the arrays. Your regex can be dressed up a little with quantifiers and built-in character classes.
my (@stamp, @name);
foreach (@ll) {
if (m#([A-Z][a-z]{2}\s\d{2}\s\d{2}:\d{2})\s(/.+\.+Z)$#) {
push @stamp, $1;
push @name, $2;
}
}
The if is necessary. Without it, you don't know that $1 and $2 are fresh. I added an end-anchoring $ to ensure .Z but not .Zoo files.
I left off printing until they can happen in one discrete block.
for (0..#$stamp) {
printf "\$name[$_]:\t%s\n\$stamp[$_]:\t%s\n\n",
$name[$_], $stamp[$_];
}
Update: Woops, japhy++ spotted a feature I completely overlooked. That simplifies everything, and makes the regex completely unnecessary. With the above @ll is @name. New version, minus printing:
my @name = map {
(glob "$path/$_")[0]
} qw/*B1006*.Z *B1106-*.Z *B11062*.Z/;
my @stamp = map { scalar localtime( (stat)[9]) } @name;
That retains $path in the names, but those can be trimmed if you like using File::Basename.
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