This little snippet works fine to grab a (compressed) file name and it's time stamp, but I'm sure that the regexp part could be written better. Also, does it have to be in an "if" statement? 
chomp($ll[0] = `ls -lto $path/*B1006* |head -n 1`);
chomp($ll[1] = `ls -lto $path/*B1106-* |head -n 1`);
chomp($ll[2] = `ls -lto $path/*B11062* |head -n 1`);

$next = 0;
foreach (@ll) {
    if (m#([A-Z][a-z][a-z]\s[0-9][0-9]\s[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9])\s(/.+\.
+Z)#) {
        $stamp[$next] = $1;
        $name[$next] = $2;
    }
    print "\$name[\$next]: $name[$next]\n";
    print "\$stamp[\$next]: $stamp[$next]\n";
    $next++;
}

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The Output looks like this: 
$name[$next]: /<path>/B1006-cnvexp.20060605.200841.Z
$stamp[$next]: Jun 05 20:08
$name[$next]: /<path>/B1106-cnvexp.20060605.2008.Z
$stamp[$next]: Jun 05 20:09
$name[$next]: /<path>/B11062-cnvexp.20060605.2008.Z
$stamp[$next]: Jun 05 20:09

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