I am trying to get the modification time of files within a directory, however, using File::stat is coming back blank. What could cause this? Here is an example: 

use File::stat;

opendir(DIR, "/to/my/directory") or die("Cannot open directory"); 
my @files= readdir(DIR); 
closedir DIR;

foreach my $file (@files) {
my $mod = (stat($file))[9];
print "Filename $file has the mod date of $mod \n";
}

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This outputs to "Filename, whatever, has the mod date of " Meaning, $mod is blank. I have tried both full directory of /to/my/directory/filename as well and this turns blank too. It seems that "stat" is returning nothing. Any reason this is the case?

UPDATE: It seems that actually saying use File::stat is the culript.... when commenting this out, I get an epoch time. Why the heck is this the case? Is File::stat not correctly where I assumed it was?

In reply to Perl Stat Issue by omegaweaponZ

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