Re: Apply mtime and atime to new file

Is this the code you are actually using? It looks like the line below won't do what you expect.

  $new_str = substr($found_file, 0, index($found_file,'.new')) . '.new
+';
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If the old filename already ends '.new' you will replace '.new' with '.new' to get the old filename again. If the old filename ends in something else, you will chop off the last character and then add '.new'. "test.it" will become "test.i.new"

Otherwise isn't the problem just that you have renamed the file from the name $new_str to the name $found_file, and then try to change the times for the file named $new_str, which isn't there anymore?

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Re: Re: Apply mtime and atime to new file by APA_Perl (Novice) on Dec 08, 2003 at 16:28 UTC
As usual I am humbled by my experience with perl. And by my more experienced colleagues. In fact it was as shenme states....I was trying to apply times to a variable that no longer existed. Thanks for the quick response and for not being too insulting regarding my ugly code and lack of knowledge.	[reply]