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granted, this is a module that isn't standard in Perl, as opposed to stat(), so you need to do the MakeMaker waltz, but I think it is worth going the extra mile for the much clearer code.

In many cases, scripts have to run on multiple platforms, with different versions of perl/mod_perl. In those situations, it's painful to have to build File::Stat just so someone doesn't have to see my $size=(stat $file)[7], which is pretty clear anyhow if you assign it to an appropriately named variable.

If you KNOW all the platforms have 5.8.0 or better available, you could use File::stat, but I'm not sure that's that big a win either over just plain stat. I guess I just prefer the builtin in this case.
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Mike

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