C:\Users\alex>perl -MData::Dumper -E "@a=stat(chr(34).chr(34)) or die $!; say Du mper(\@a)" $VAR1 = [ 2, # device 0, # inode 16895, # mode = 0x41FF = 040777 1, # nlink 0, # uid 0, # gid 2, # rdev 0, # size 1340557931, # atime 1340557931, # mtime 1336337436, # ctime '', # blocksize '' # blocks ]; C:\Users\alex>