I have had the same problem, sometimes that answer has been so obvious when I find it that I feel like a little session of auto-flagellation!

For Windows nyou can refer to the, now more than a little aged, "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems", Schwartz, Olson & Christiansen, O'Reilly, 1997. You can still buy it, or you can read it online on Safari (see oreilly.com).

Page 123 - stat function
...to get at the remaining information for the file call the stat function, which returns pretty much everything the POSIX system call stat returns. Not all fo the stat fields are meaningful under Perl for Win32... 

($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size,
    $atime, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $blocks) = stat( . . . );

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There is also the File::stat module, which is part of the Perl Core Modules. You will find its documentation in the ActiveState documentation if you are using that package.

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