Monks I beseech thee,

I am doing major edits to sgml files through regex. Basically I am taking the original file as a string, editing the string and then printing the string to a new file. I want the new file to retain the modified and accessed dates of the original file. Here's my attempt so far:

                       
$atime = (stat($found_file))[8];
$mtime = (stat($found_file))[9];
$time = ctime($date_string);
 
$sgml_string = finalProcess($sgml_string);
$new_str = substr($found_file, 0, index($found_file,'.new')) . '.new';

open (NEW_STR, ">$new_str");
print NEW_STR $sgml_string;
close NEW_STR;
                             
unlink($found_file);
rename ($new_str, $found_file);
utime ($atime, $mtime, $new_str);

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