Thanks very much John. John W. Krahn wrote:
Tony Frasketi wrote:Is there an ASCII equivalent to the numeric value UID returned by stat($filename)[4] and if so is there a function to aquire the ASCII value... Also is the UID related to the owner of the file as shown in the directory display ls -al in Unix? If UID and file ownership is not, however related, is there a function to obtain the file's owner name in ASCII format?my $user = getpwuid( (stat $filename)[4] ); perldoc -f getpwuid John
