Need help to list the updated file in a directory

Hi

Can u help me in writing the below function in perl under windows

> We have some n number of files in a dir ( eg : 10 .txt files)
> In that abc.txt is latest modified

Now i would like to list the file name of the last moddified using a fucntion by filtering the other files

Pls can anyone help mi out inthis..

under windows

Thanks in advance

re: Need help to list the updated file in a directory

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Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire .
Email:vivian_danga@yahoo.fr

Dear One,

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Best regards,

Miss Vivian Danga

re: Need help to list the updated file in a directory

Ms Danga's kind offer aside, you can get the file list for a directory as follows

@a = <C:/path/to/file>;

Then...

for each instance of $a[..] you can get the date last modified as follows

open(HANDLE, $a[..]);

my $date = localtime( (stat HANDLE)[9] );

close HANDLE;

So just whack that in a for loop and find the last modified

the [9] is from this list

0 dev device number of filesystem
1 ino inode number
2 mode file mode (type and permissions)
3 nlink number of (hard) links to the file
4 uid numeric user ID of file's owner
5 gid numeric group ID of file's owner
6 rdev the device identifier (special files only)
7 size total size of file, in bytes
8 atime last access time since the epoch
9 mtime last modify time since the epoch
10 ctime inode change time (NOT creation time!) since the epoch
11 blksize preferred block size for file system I/O
12 blocks actual number of blocks allocated