I'd suggest two small changes. First, don't stat just your $_ variable - since you are doing an opendir, only the names of the files are returned, not the full path. In this particular case, it is okay, but something to get in the habit of so it does not nail you later. Second, you can simply swap the order of the sort arguments instead of using a reverse. Not a big deal, but a little more compact and readable (IMO). I kept the nice map idea from agoth and also added another argument, in case you feel like sorting by somthing else.

my $dir   = shift || ".";
my $field = shift || 10;
opendir(DIRH, $dir) or die "Cannot open $dir: $!";
my %file = map  { $_ => (stat("$dir/$_"))[$field]}
            grep { !/^\.\.?$/ && /pm$/ }
            readdir DIRH;
closedir(DIRH);

for (sort { $file{$b} cmp $file{$a} } keys %file) {
  print "$_ , $file{$_} \n";
}

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