Hi all,

I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but I have checked Q&A and can't seem to find where I'm going wrong.

I am using stat to return the 'mtime' for a files in a given Win32 directory. I want to ensure that no file in the directory is older than 20min.

I'm getting some strange results...

use strict;
my $mytime=(time);
my ($File,$FileStat,$CallOutDir);

opendir(CallOut, $CallOutDir) || die "$!\n";
foreach $File (readdir(CallOut)) {
    next if $File=~/^\./;
    if ($FileStat = (stat $File)[9]){
        if ($FileStat <= ($mytime - 1200)) {
        print "File older than 20min found. The file name is $File");
        #send mail here....
        last;
        }
    }
}

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Please help o suppliers of wisdom.

Thanks, Smaug.

In reply to File stat problem by Smaug

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