Re: How to get the File creation date

You have to add parenthesis to tell perl what the list is:

$m = (stat $file)[9];
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Re^2: How to get the File creation date by soubalaji (Sexton) on Aug 17, 2010 at 15:12 UTC
I done like this, but i get the answers is dome digit (i.e.) 198768745 how to convert this to date.	[reply]
Re^3: How to get the File creation date by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Aug 17, 2010 at 15:59 UTC
What you have there is the number of seconds since midnight Jan 1 1970. This is known as epoch time. To convert you can use the localtime function, this returns, an array of the date elements by default, however if called in a scalar context it will return a time string, you can force scalar context with the scalar function ot by assigning to a scalar variable Alternatively read my sig ;) Incidental note, 198768745 represents Mon Apr 19 14:32:25 1976, so either You typed in some random digits rather than the content of `(stat $file)[9]` You're running a UnixTSS box Or the figure came from somewhere else `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l] [select]