and we can use the _ handle to avoid stat'ing twice.
Sorry,I don't know what is _ handle.Who help explain with it please,thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Sent: Dec 14, 2005 11:56 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: sort files by creation time
>>>>> "Todd" == Todd W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Todd> my @files = map $_->[0],
Todd> sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] }
Todd> map [ $_, -M ],
Todd> grep -f, # get only plain files
Todd> glob("/mnt/qdls/MSDSIN/*");
Since the map can also serve as a grep, and we can use the _ handle
to avoid stat'ing twice, this can be simplified to:
my @files =
map $_->[0],
sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] }
map { -f $_ ? [$_, -M _] : () }
glob "...";
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