Radhika Sambamurti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : my question is - where did the very first line from my : output come from? ie Mon Mar 15 15:55:58. As you can see, : ls -l does not show any file created at that time. Even : . and .. are not the above time. : Is it using sort(@array), that sorts it in some manner : that I do not understand?
Have you read perlfunc? "The ctime field is non-portable, in particular you cannot expect it to be a 'creation time', see Files and Filesystems in the perlport manpage for details." HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Mobile Homes Specialist 254 968-8328 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>