I will start by stating I am working in a Windows system running ActiveState Perl. Issue - I am trying to create a script that will travers multiple sub-directories under a static "Root" directory and look for files ending in .DAT that were modified/created on todays date. I have been able to do all but figure out how to traverse sub-dirs and only look for the .DAT files. My code so far is below - can anyone lend a hand in showing me if there is a way to traverse all subs from a given root and look for just files ending in .dat? 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

opendir(DIR, $some_dir) || die "can't opendir $some_dir: $!";
@files = readdir(DIR)
closedir DIR;

foreach $file (@files)
{
  ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
   $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)
   = stat($file);


  # Will use data to create SQL statements to input data into Database
}

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Thanks, Ad.

In reply to Help with ReadDir and Stat? by batcater98

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