It seems from your code that you don't want to use File::stat. That module replaces your stat function with one that returns File::Stat objects that can be queried by name (like stat($filename)->mtime), rather than returning lists. Your first few lines of code will probably work if you remove use File::stat.

Note that 

print "$filename at (stat($filename))[9]\n\n";

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has no chance of behaving the way you expect, because Perl has no way of knowing that that stat is supposed to be a function call—it's treated like any other text. (To put it more succinctly, function calls aren't interpolated.) You can write 
print "$filename at (", ( stat($filename) )[9], "\n\n";

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or use the old trick of array de-referencing: 
print "$filename at (@{[ ( stat($filename) )[9] ]})\n\n";

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UPDATE: If you do want to use File::stat, then you should replace 

($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,$atime,$mtime,$ctime,$bl
+ksize,$blocks) = stat($filename) or die "Can't stat file $filename\n"
+;

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by 
my $stat = stat($filename) or die "Can't stat file $filename";

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(no need for that newline), and then, rather than trying to access an array that isn't there, use a method call: 
print "$filename at (", $stat->mtime, ")\n";

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In reply to Re: stat($filename) fails ?! by JadeNB
in thread stat($filename) fails ?! by natol44

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