I'm having some trouble understanding how to retrieve [\@properties] of files inside of Tarballs. This information will be later saved into a table.

Here is the information from the perldoc.

Archive::Tar->list_archive($file, $compressed, [\@properties])

Returns a list of the names of all the files in the archive. The first argument can either be the name of the tar file to list or a reference to an open file handle (e.g. a GLOB reference).

If list_archive() is passed an array reference as its third argument it returns a list of hash references containing the requested properties of each file. The following list of properties is supported: full_path, name, size, mtime (last modified date), mode, uid, gid, linkname, uname, gname, devmajor, devminor, prefix, type.

I've tried a few different test code samples but none are giving me the properties and I haven't seen any code samples online showing someone else trying to get properties.

use Archive::Tar;
my @properties = "name, size, mtime";
my ($location) = "/vol/archive5/test5.tar";
my %files = Archive::Tar->list_archive($location,,[\@properties]);
print Dumper \%files;

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use Archive::Tar;
my ($location) = "/vol/archive5/test5.tar";
my %files = Archive::Tar->list_archive($location,,['size']);
foreach my $file (keys %files) {
   my $size = $files{$file}{'size'};
   print "$size\n";
}

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use Archive::Tar;
my ($location) = "/vol/archive5/test5.tar";
my %files = Archive::Tar->list_archive($location,,['size']);
foreach my $file (keys %files) {
   my $size = @{ $files{$file}{'size'} };
   print "$size\n";
}

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In reply to Archive::Tar->list_archive Properties by sirhalos

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