Update: Thanks to MarkM for pointing out that split() accepts a scalar as its first argument just fine, provided you escape the \'s

I think the problem lies in your call to split(). You should pass a pattern as its first argument, but instead you're passing a scalar. Later I provide a proper example. This is a test of utime() on my system, just so we know this is not culprit.

bash-2.05a$ touch "my file"
bash-2.05a$ ls -l "my file"
-rw-r--r--  1 lem  staff  0 Feb  2 21:28 my file
bash-2.05a$ sleep 60; perl -e 'print utime(undef, undef, "my file"), "\n";'
1
bash-2.05a$ ls -l "my file"
-rw-r--r--  1 lem  staff  0 Feb  2 21:29 my file

Also, you should be checking the return value of utime(). When it fails, returns a false value. You could then use the special variable $! to see a (hopefully) meaningful error message. See perlvar for more info on this variable.

Your code is otherwise fine (I guess) but I would like to offer a shorter and untested alternative...

open(CSV, "/tmp/doctime.txt") or die "Failed to open CSV: $!\n";
while (my $line = <CSV>)
{
  my @val = split(/,/, $line, 2);
  unless (utime $val[0], $val[0], $val[1])
  {
    warn "Failed to utime $val[1]: $!\n";
  }
}
close CSV;

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++ for -w, but you should also use strict.

Best regards

-lem, but some call me fokat

In reply to Re: spaces in filenames by fokat
in thread spaces in filenames by ironpaw

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