Hi Monks!
I want to build a subroutine which returns the latest modified file in an array of files (could be regular file, link or directory).
The area is given in $base_dir variable and the filenames list hash ref is given in $filenames_href (The keys are the number and the values are just "1").
The initial code: 
sub test {
    my ($base_dir,$filenames_href) = @_;
    foreach my $filename (keys(%{$filenames_href})) {
        my $file_path = catfile($base_dir,$filename); # Could be file,
+ dir, link, ...
        # TODO: Check if the $file_path is the latest I seen ?
    }
    return $latest_modified_file;
}

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For example: 
ls -la .
-rw-r-----  1 user group        33659 Nov  3 14:49 a
drwxr-x---  3 user group         4096 May  3  2021 b
drwxr-x---  3 user group         4096 Dec  8 16:18 c
-rwxr-x--x  1 user group           67 Apr  5  2021 e
drwxr-x---  4 user group         4096 Nov  1 15:29 f
-rw-r-----  1 user group          798 Nov 15 17:00 g

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In that case the sub should return c because it was modified latest. Is there a standard way to do it?

In reply to Getting latest modified file in a directory by ovedpo15

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