I think you need something more like the below:

use File::Monitor;
use File::Monitor::Object;
my $wFileMonitor = File::Monitor->new();
$wFileMonitor->watch($wFile);
#-- First scan does nothing
$wFileMonitor->scan;

#-- Let's sleep so changes can happen
sleep 10

#-- Subsequent calls will report changes
my @changes = $wFileMonitor->scan;

foreach my $object (@changes) {
  my $modified = $object->mtime;
}

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Since you're only monitoring one file I guess you'll get either 0 or 1 objects back from scan depending on whether the file changed or not.

Objects are of class File::Monitor::Delta as shown in the docs.

In reply to Re: Accessing File::Monitor attribute by Crackers2
in thread Accessing File::Monitor attribute by herda05

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