Hello there, long time reader first time poster. I've been learning perl slowly over the last few months and have some cool scripts that really help me at work. The script in question parses Wincross topline data for me and spits out an output file that tells me the bases. You don't need to know what any of that means because it does all that perfectly! The problem is that I'm having to specify which file I want it run on and that's silly because I only run it right after I create a file, so I just need it to run on my most recent rtf.
All I need is to replace:
open INPUT, "<8413at80.rtf";
I want it to simply use the most recently created rtf file in its current folder rather than "8413at80.rtf" or whatever. That's all. Running on a windows machine, the solutions I've found that seemed straightforward were for unix.
Thank you for your help!

In reply to How to find most recent file and use it? by luxlunae

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