Vance M. Allen wrote: > I'm trying to find out how to determine the date and/or time that a file was > created in a simple procedure. I have heard about a few different libraries > but the examples I have found haven't been very useful. > > The basic purpose I want to do is a simple footer provided by a package > module through CGI to inform users of the latest update to the code based on > the URL. Something simple saying "Version x.xx, Last Modified MM/DD/YYYY." > which would automatically get the file modified timestamp. > > I'd prefer to have, if possible, a simple scalar variable to store the > date...for example: > > $modtime = filemoddate_func(filename.cgi); > > If anyone can help me with the libraries I need to use for this (if any > special), and a code snippet if possible, I'd really appreciate it. > > Thanks! > > Vance > > >
Generally this type of information is provided by C<stat>, see, perldoc -f stat For the details. To get the modification time for example you could use something like, my $mod_time = (stat 'filename.cgi')[9]; File creation time is rarely if ever available. Obviously you could wrap the above in a sub, but I suspect there isn't a lot of reason to since it is so short anyways. HTH, http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
