I am currently writing a script to compare file time stamps. I currently have it pulling and displaying time stamps but cannot get it to compare them. I think I may be making it more complicated than it needs to be or just looking at it in the wrong light. I am very new to perl so any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. 
#use strict;

$comparetime="0";

sub compare;

$Clinrxdir="DIRECTORY GOES HERE";

opendir(DIR,$Clinrxdir);
@Files= readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

foreach $cpupdate (@Files){

if($cpupdate =~ m/\s*cp_/i){


my $m_time = (stat($Clinrxdir.$cpupdate))[9];
my ($i_wday, $i_month, $day, $year) = (localtime($m_time))[6,4,3,5];

compare($m_time);

print "Timestamp for " . $cpupdate . " " . $m_time ."\n";


}
}

print "This is a test of file = " . $file . "\n";

system("pause");


sub compare($){
local( $string ) = shift;
if($comparetime > $string){
    $file=$cpupdate;}
    else{$compare=$m_time;}
}

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