Hi!

I started out with

  $stat = stat("$gallery_dir/$pix_base") ;
  $mode = decoct($stat[mode]) ;
  print "mode = '$mode'<br>\n" ;

and moved to

  $stat = stat("$gallery_dir/$pix_base") ;
  print "decoct(stat[mode]) is '" . decoct($stat[mode]) . "'<br>\n";    ###

but I would like to get rid of $stat as well.  How can I feed the proper
subscript output of the stat call to decoct?  I've found that

  print "decoct(stat(file)[mode] is '" . decoct($stat("$gallery_dir/$pix_base")[mode]) 
. "'<br>\n" ;    ###

gives me a parse error, while

  print "decoct(stat(file)[mode] is '" . 
decoct(${stat("$gallery_dir/$pix_base")}[mode]) . "'<br>\n" ;  ###

just returns 0.  Do I *have* to use a temp array here?


TIA & HAND

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