First you do, in sub GetLogFilesAndDatesIntoArray : 
my @fileanddate;

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--> you define this as a lexical array for this sub.

Then, in the foreach loop, you do: 

@fileanddate = ($filename, $mtime);
$filesanddates[$filecounter] = \@fileanddate;

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--> After setting it, you push a reference to @fileanddate onto @filesanddates.

That's your error. All of the references you push onto @filesanddates point to the same array, @fileanddate. Hence, all of these point to the same piece of data. This piece of data is the one you last put into it - the last set of (filename, mtime).

To solve this, just make sure that the reference you push onto @filesanddates is to something that is scoped locally to the foreach block. For example: 

foreach my $filename (@filenames) {
  my $mtime=(stat ($filename))[9];
  my @fileanddate=($filename, $mtime);
  # Note lexical scoping of @fileanddate
  push @filesanddates, \@fileanddate;
}

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Or better yet: 
foreach my $filename (@filenames) {
  push @filesanddates, [ ( $filename, (stat ($filename))[9] ) ];
}

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For more information on scoping, have a look at this tutorial.

CU
Robartes-

In reply to Re: Passing Array of Arrays by robartes
in thread Passing Array of Arrays by marctwo

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