Oh wise Monks,
I have a script below which i wish to play around but I cant even get it to open! When execute I recieve the following error
"Can't open /path/of/file/filename.ext! at ./modi.pl line 11."
now is it the case that the path has to be entered inside the script. I much rather have the user enter the path at the terminal. How would I do this?
As always Monks your advise is really appreciated. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::stat;
# Declare variables
my $filename;
my $FILE_HANDLE;
my $file_stat;
my $current_time;
my $diff_seconds;
$filename = '/path/of/file/filename.ext';
# Open the file
open ($FILE_HANDLE, $filename)
or die "Can't open $filename!";
# Get the file status structure
$file_stat = stat($FILE_HANDLE);
# Get the current time
$current_time = time;
# Get the elapsed time in seconds
$diff_seconds = time - $file_stat->mtime;
# Do whatever you want with the $diff_seconds
print "\n$filename was modified $diff_seconds seconds back.\n";
# All done

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