Hello mr19,

The monks have already answered your question. But you can also pass stat values to an array:

Sample:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $filename = 'test.txt';

my @array = stat($filename);

print Dumper \@array;

my $epoch_timestamp = (stat($filename))[9];

print "Epoch seconds: " . $epoch_timestamp . "\n";

__DATA__

$VAR1 = [
          64513,
          7741435,
          33188,
          1,
          283683,
          6856,
          0,
          0,
          1434023984,
          1434023978,
          1434023983,
          4096,
          0
        ];
Epoch seconds: 1434023978
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Or if you want to use the module:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $filename = 'test.txt';

my @array = stat($filename);

print Dumper \@array;

my $epoch_timestamp = (stat($filename))[9];
my $timestamp       = localtime($epoch_timestamp);

print "\nEpoch seconds: " . $epoch_timestamp . "\n";
print "Date and time: " . $timestamp . "\n";

statSubRoutine();

sub statSubRoutine {    
    use File::stat;

    my $timestamp      = (stat($filename)->mtime);
    my $localTimeStamp = localtime($epoch_timestamp);

    print "\n\$timestamp: " . $timestamp . "\n";
    print "\$localTimeStamp: " . $localTimeStamp . "\n";
}

__DATA__

$VAR1 = [
          64513,
          7741354,
          33188,
          1,
          283683,
          6856,
          0,
          0,
          1434028480,
          1434028479,
          1434028479,
          4096,
          0
        ];

Epoch seconds: 1434028479
Date and time: Thu Jun 11 15:14:39 2015

$timestamp: 1434028479
$localTimeStamp: Thu Jun 11 15:14:39 2015
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Update: Including conversion epoch seconds to human readable form.

Hope this helps.