heres something i came up with. please dont laugh at me cos I am really new to all this. my objective is to get 100 files from a directory having the oldest access times and then delete them(something like a cache) 
sub make_space {
    
        my $folder_name = $_[0];   
        opendir DIR_HANDLE, ".$folder_name";        
    my @filelist = readdir DIR_HANDLE;          
    close DIR_HANDLE;        
    foreach $filename(@filelist) {
       $st = stat($ilename)
       $actime = st->$atime
    }
      
#custom sort routine to sort the filelist according to their last acce
+ssed date 
    @sorted_list = sort { ($actime{$a}) >
                 ($actime{$b})
               } @filelist;
    
    #deleting 1st 100 entries in the sorted array 
    for($i =0; $i <=99 ;$i=$i+1)
    {
        unlink($sorted_list[i]);
    }
}

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