Hi Monks, I have a FTP script that does the ftp from the server. The server conatin plenty of zip files, in those files i require few ie latest ones, and for the single day there will be multiple files in this format 
arident16_Jul282009_2358.zip
arident16_Jul282009_2320.zip
arident16_Jul272009_1619.zip

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I want o campare if it is todays files and time is 2358 then only it should be allowed to be ftp'ed else let it be in the server. I am pasting my code here.... 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::FTP;
use Archive::Zip;
use IO::File ;
    
print "Retrieving file from abc.com...\n";
$loginip='12.34.56.78';
$loginid='login';
$loginpaswd='password';
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year)=(localtime(time))[0,1,2,3,4,5];
$time_stamp= "_" . (1900+$year) . "_" . ($mon+1) . "_" . ($mday) . "_"
+ . $hour . "_" . $min . "_". $sec;
printf "time stamp = $time_stamp\n";


unless(-d "TFLogs")
{
    mkdir("TFLogs");
}
if( -d "TFLogs")
{
    chdir("TFLogs");
}

$ftp = Net::FTP->new(($loginip), Debug => 0)
or die "Cannot connect to abc.com: $@ \n";

$ftp->login($loginid,$loginpaswd)
or die "Cannot login ", $ftp->message;

$source_dir="nt12/logs/";

$ftp->cwd($source_dir)
or die "Cannot change working directory ", $ftp->message;


$ftp->binary || die "Unable to set mode to binary. ", $ftp->message;

@list=$ftp->ls();
printf "list = \n";
print @list;
foreach $file (@list)
{
<quote>
i want to fit in my code here to check for the latest file and time.
</quote>
    
    $ftp->get($file) or die "get failed ", $ftp->message;
    my $zipname = $file;
    my $destinationDirectory = 'C:\Perl Script\TFLogs';
    my $zip = Archive::Zip->new($zipname);
    foreach my $member ($zip->members)
    {
        next if $member->isDirectory;
        (my $extractName = $member->fileName) =~ s{.*/}{};
        $member->extractToFileNamed(
          "$destinationDirectory/$extractName");
    }


}

$ftp->quit;

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Thanks NT

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