See there's the problem stat didn't have a lot of meaning to me, BUT now it does. Thank you.

The root of this problem is that there is only one semi portable OS programming interface, and win32 isn't it. If you only have minor knowledge of POSIX then looking for a stat/fstat call would be the first thing you'd think of doing (or even if you didn't know that then you'd probably know to search for "modification time"). IMO, many perl things (from glob to open()) make more sense from a POSIX POV.

Alas, I'm not really sure how you can solve that. Maybe a learn POSIX in 5 minutes type book would help.

--
James Antill

In reply to Re: Re: Re: I can't find anything by nevyn
in thread I can't find anything by ellem

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.