in reply to file date

if ( -M $filename > 7) [ # do something }

See perlfunc:_X or perldoc -f -X for more information.

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); +$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth +er_name\n"'