stewartski,
Perhaps you should take a look at PerlTidy as good indention really helps in readability and bug hunting. Since you have not shown all of the code, I do not know what $timeThen is so I will assume it is an epoch time stamp. You also do not show where $connect comes from? Are you using warnings and strictures? I have never used Net::FTP, but I would guess it should look something like this. 
my $stamp;    # set to appropriate epoch time stamp
my @files = $ftp->ls();
chomp( @files );

for my $file ( @files ) {
    print "Testing file : $file\n";
    if ( $file !~ /\.stm$/ ) {
        print "Skipping : $file is not an .stm file\n";
        next;
    }
    my $mtime = $ftp->mdtm($file);
    die "cannot get mdtm for $file\n" if ! $mtime;
    print "$file last modified : ", scalar localtime($mtime), "\n";
    if ( $mtime < $stamp ) {
        print "Removing file : $file\n";
        $ftp->delete($file);
        print $ftp->message, "\n";
    }
}

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: Re: Re: using $ftp->mdtm($file) by Limbic~Region
in thread using $ftp->mdtm($file) by stewartski

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