thanks rob. how about Win32::File? regards irfan
________________________________ From: Rob Coops <rco...@gmail.com> To: Irfan Sayed <irfan_sayed2...@yahoo.com> Cc: "beginners@perl.org" <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 5:23 PM Subject: Re: read file attributes On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Irfan Sayed <irfan_sayed2...@yahoo.com> wrote: hi, > >i need to access the attributes of file. >more precisely, i need to check if the file is digitally signed or not > > >for example; if i right click on file, then i need to check if the "digital >signature" tab is there or not for that specific file and valid certificate is >there. > >please suggest if any perl module is available to get this info > > >regards, >irfan > Hi Ifran, It would help if you indicate the platform you are working on :-) Now I assume you are working on windows and in that case I would guess (never needed this myself so I can't say for sure) that Win32API::File should do the trick. After all is offers a direct interface to the windows file API and therefore should be able to provide you what you are looking for. Regards, Rob