On 2/11/08, Michael Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought about using lstat to get the size of a file for file > comparisons. I see that lstat always returns a list of thirteen values. > The references I find appear to require assignment of those 13 values > to variables, even though I only want to use one. > > Do I really have to put > > ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size, > $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) > = lstat($filename); > > Just to get the $size variable populated with the file size?
You can put in an "undef" in place of any variable you don't want, and I believe you can omit trailing "undef"s. -- Mark Wagner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
