Re: Newbie needs some help w/ files/dates ...

meisenzahl@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> About 5 years ago I worked my way to the O'Reilly Perl for Win32 book,
> but haven't used it since. I have a need to write a Perl app that will
> check the timestamps of several known files in known locations. If the
> date/time of any of the files is not the current date, send email to a
> known list of recipients.
>
> Can anyone get me started on how to check the date/time stamp of a file
> and compare it to the current day?

Fire up your command shell and run:
perldoc -f -M
perldoc -f localtime
perldoc -f time

Paul Lalli

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