Re^3: efficient way to find most recently modified files?

OK, this is untested, but try something like:

my @files_sorted = sort { substr($a,-14,10) cmp substr($b,-14,10) } (g
+lob('yourpath/bobby*.txt'));
my $latest_file = $files_sorted[-1];
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This assumes that all '.txt' files have the name format you mention.

Cheers

mildside

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Re^4: efficient way to find most recently modified files? by mildside (Friar) on May 08, 2006 at 06:24 UTC
Actually, if all your 'bobby.txt' files follow your filenaming convention then the sort can be expressed a little bit simpler as (untested): `my @files_sorted = sort (glob('yourpath/bobby.txt')); my $latest_file = $files_sorted[-1];` [download] Cheers mildside	[reply] [d/l]