in reply to TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename

Why not go with straight unix time, so sorting would be easy.
#!/usr/bin/perl $fname = time.'.'.('0' x (14 - length(int(rand(1e14))))) . int(rand(1e +14)); print "$fname\n"; open (FILE,"> $fname"); close FILE;
Very low name collision rate. :-)

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