Hello Monks

I'm trying to find the latest file created or modified by time in a directory and using the following code

opendir(my $DH, $DIR) or die "Error opening $DIR: $!";
my @files = map { [ stat "$DIR/$_", $_ ] } grep(! /^\.\.?$/, readdir($
+DH));
closedir($DH);

sub rev_by_date { $b->[9] <=> $a->[9] }
my @sorted_files = sort rev_by_date @files;

my @newest = @{$sorted_files[0]};
my $name = pop(@newest);

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But the problem is that in my perl script, I am using File::stat module and inturn 'stat' used inside 'map' is referring to File::stat module but not core function. This results in getting a wrong file name. How can I resolve this issue. any help is appreciated.

In reply to find the latest created file in a directory by doubledecker

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