Paul Kraus wrote at Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:27:15 -0400: > What's an easy way to grab just one element out of a function that > returns a list. > > For instance if I was to stat a file and all I wanted was the $atime or > if I just wanted the three timestamps atime mtime and ctime. Thanks.
A completely different way that works in the special case of stat, would be my ($atime, $mtime, $ctime) = (-A $file, -M _, -C _); That also only calls once the stat function, but is a bit more intuitiv, as indexing them with [8,9,10] from the stat returning list. Read perldoc perlvar for details. Greetings, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
