I want to read the files in a directory and get the files name and creation date. The problem is getting the date. I'm able to read the files without a problem, using something like 
opendir(DIR, "t:\\") or die "can't opendir $dirname: $!";

@files = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

foreach $file (@files) {
   print "$file\n";

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Ideally I'd like to have the file name in one variable $file and the date in another $date. If I don't find a handy way of doing this then I'm going to have to do something stupid like load the list of files into an array and then run through the array and get the properties for each file (stupid). Please help.

In reply to Reading a directory and getting file dates by esolm

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