in reply to Re: Re: file date
in thread file date

I blame my documentation -- it seemed suggest that stat was for filehandles and lstat was for filenames...

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Re: Re: Re: Re: file date
by Beatnik (Parson) on Jun 12, 2001 at 11:42 UTC
    Burn that book !!
    perldoc -f lstat is handy too (and it'll get ya the right docs, if you're using a recent perl version)

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    Beatnik
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