Paul. Stat is a Operator and not function and the operand to stat is a filehandle, or an expression that evalutes to a filename. As the old rule says "If you use the parentheses, the simple (but occasionally surprising) rule is this: It LOOKS like a function, therefore it IS a function, and precedence doesn't matter. Otherwise it's a list operator or unary operator, and precedence does matter.
Hope this makes sense. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 6:52 AM To: 'Jenda Krynicky'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Stat() - Getting one element Ok I understand this but why the need for enclosing the function call in (). Thanks for the info. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Stat() - Getting one element From: "Paul Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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. $atime = (stat($file))[8]; ($atime, $mtime, $ctime) = (stat($file))[8,9,10]; HTH, Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
