Hi, I am having a terrible time with the stat function. I am trying to add code to a current program to where it will print out an error message if the last file read is older than 20 minutes. I am trying to get it in seconds so (1200 seconds). I have been to CPAN and looked at stat, but I guess I'm not following it correctly. Here is what I have: 
my @array = ($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size, $ati
+me, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $block);
@array = stat($_);
$array = @array[8];
if($array > 1200){
print "ERROR MESSAGE";}

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ANY HELP is greatly appreciated...........THank YOu!

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