beginner question about stat fucntion

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Re: beginner question about stat fucntion by linuxer (Curate) on May 23, 2009 at 14:13 UTC
That assigns the "last modify time in seconds since the epoch" of `$path` to `$time` (given that your `time` meant `$time`).^* see stat for details. ^* Thanks ww.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: beginner question about stat fucntion by ww (Archbishop) on May 23, 2009 at 15:10 UTC
Well, it would mean that if `time` were `$time`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: beginner question about stat fucntion by shmem (Chancellor) on May 23, 2009 at 22:28 UTC
That's shorthand for `my @ary = stat $path; $time = $ary[9];` [download] since stat returns a list. A list can be subscripted.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: beginner question about stat fucntion by Anonymous Monk on May 23, 2009 at 14:25 UTC
give it up ree	[reply]