in reply to Re: Finding Oldest File in a Directory
in thread Finding Oldest File in a Directory

Yep. It would be better yet to use File::Spec though.

use File::Spec::Functions qw( catfile );

# ...

my $x = stat( catfile $dirname, $file )->mtime;

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