first comment is the the my $VAR ||= ... lines should just use the = operator and not ||= (since declaring the vars here, obvisouly they are undef so doing the equivalent of my $x = $x || ... doesn't gain anything).

do you have a use Time::localtime; statement in there? To debug, i would Data::Dumper the $ct, $mt, and $at variables and see what's in there. Maybe also dump $sb and $sb->ctime, $sb->mtime, and $sb->atime and hopefully that will reveal the problem.

Update: I see now that you (blackadder) posted this already here: Invalid File Handle??? and that my advice above is same as that given in that thread -- did you follow it? what were the results? I also see you posted that other thread just 3 hours ago .. why don't you wait a little longer before reposting the same issue?

In reply to Re: I am really stuck here....PLEASE HELP. by davidrw
in thread Invalid File Handle??? by blackadder

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