At first glance, at least, it seems that your code is going to loop forever: 
# Loops forever
for ($i=0; $i++;) {
  $pers = @buschecked[i];
}

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I'd suggest iterating over the list itself: 

# Goes through list
for (@buschecked) {
   $pers = $_;
}

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Plus, assigning to $pers doesn't actually do anything, so I'm not sure why you're doing it. :)

May I suggest the File::Find module, plus Time::Local or one of the many other Time or Date modules on CPAN.

Update: Changed Date::ParseDate to Time::Local, since it seemed more applicable.

stephen

In reply to Re: Could someone take a look at this code snippet? by stephen
in thread Sorting a list of filenames by wstarrs

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