Hi everyone,

I tried making a post about this earlier but I wasn't clear enough and it didn't go so well. Anyway, here's my second attempt ... I'm trying to implement a pretty simple code using 'stat' and 'localtime' as follows: 
#!perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use 5.010;

open FILE, ">hoser.txt";
my @file_info = stat(FILE);
close FILE;

print join "\n", @file_info;

my $timestamp = pop( @file_info );
print my $date = localtime $timestamp;

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Seems simple enough right?? Well, I keep getting the same warning but don't know why:

Argument "" isn't numeric in localtime at examples.pl line 13.

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Everything still works but I don't understand what it's complaining about. By works, I mean the localtime operations works but if I try printing the contents of $timestamp for example, I just get the warning.

Help much appreciated.

In reply to stat and localtime - take2 by neutron

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