in reply to sort by date

Perhaps something like (untested):
opendir my $dir => $directoryOfImage or die; my @allPictures = map {substr $_ => 10} sort map {sprint "%010d%s" => (stat) [9], $_} grep {$_ ne "." && $_ ne ".."} readdir $dir; closedir $dir;

So don't recommend me modules please.
Why not?

Abigail