John W. Krahn wrote:
Richard Lee wrote:
@array = qx#ls -tr $directory/$ARGV[0]*#;
Why not do that directly in perl:
@array = map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [ $_, -M ],
glob "$directory/$ARGV[0]*";
Sorry, that should be:
@array = map $_->[0], sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } map [ $_, -M ],
glob "$directory/$ARGV[0]*";
John
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