----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Maier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List"
<perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 9:41 AM
Subject: Find the date of the newest file????


> I have a Perl app that catalogs photo files. IS there a quicker way of
> finding "the newest" file date in a directory other than doing a stat on
> each file in it??  How??
>

The 'dir' command always seems to list files chronologically (and also lists
the date and time). Maybe you could make use of that - though I don't know
if it's any quicker.

Cheers,
Rob

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