Re^3: Help with ReadDir and Stat?

You can pass the mtime to localtime. i.e.,

my ($mday, $mon, $year) = localtime($mtime)[3,4,5];
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Then do the same with the current time:

my ($cmday, $cmon, $cyear) = localtime(time)[3,4,5];
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and then compare them. I'm sure there's a more efficient way, but this should work.

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Re^4: Help with ReadDir and Stat? by batcater98 (Acolyte) on Mar 13, 2008 at 18:50 UTC
You have been a great help - I am learning a lot here. One more question. I am working on the date compare and I am getting errors. Here is what I am trying. `my $lctime = strftime("%m_%d_%y",localtime); my $fltime = strftime("%m_%d_$y",localtime(stat($filename)[9])); if ($lctime = $fltime) { # processs file data }` [download] The Localtime(mtime) returned from the stat function is giving an error. Ideas on this? Thanks, Ad.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Help with ReadDir and Stat? by Akoya (Scribe) on Mar 13, 2008 at 18:59 UTC
localtime returns a list. You need indexes 3, 4, and 5 from that list. You're code can be modified like this: `my $lctime = strftime("%m_%d_%y",localtime[3 .. 5]); my $fltime = strftime("%m_%d_$y",localtime(stat($filename)[9])[3 .. 5] +); if ($lctime = $fltime) { # processs file data }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]