[ale] perl File::stat question

[James CE Johnson]

How about stat("$directory/$file") ?

Also, shouldn't
> 	print Tr( td( a({href=>"$dir/$file"}, "<b>$title</b>")),
be
> 	print Tr( td( a({href=>"$directory/$file"}, "<b>$title</b>")),


> 
> I'm trying to stat a file 
> 
>   $info = stat($file);
> 
> and then set 
>   $accesslast = $info->atime;
> and 
>   $created = $info->mtime;
> 
> For some reason, stat($file) seems to be coming up null.  When I
> substitute another file, say stat("/etc/passwd"), $accesslast and
> $created come up fine.  Can you let me know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> 
> NOTE: I don't normally include the whole damn script, but if
> there's anything *else* wrong with the code, please let me know
> about that too, okay?  I'm new at this stuff and I can always use
> good advice!  :-)
> 
> 	###########  SNIP  #############
> 
> 	
> #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
> 
> use Carp;
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> use File::stat;
> use strict;
> 
> 
> my $directory = '/var/www/compedge';
> my $url = 'http://sylvester.dsj.net';
> my $dir = 'compedge';
> 
> print header(), start_html("My ComputorEdge Articles"),
> h1("Articles from <i>I Don't Do Windows</i>: ");
> 
> print p( a({href=>"http://www.computoredge.com"}, "ComputorEdge
> Magazine") . " has been gracious enough to give me and my
> interest in Linux and UNIX some space in their magazine.  Over
> the months and years, my articles have accumulated to be a rather
> regular part of the magazine.  Hopefully, they can be of help for
> anyone new to the free UNIXex.  They are listed for your benefit
> below.");
> 
> print p("Please feel free to search for stuff in my articles " .
> a({href=>"$url/$dir/search.html"}, "here"). "  Note: I really
> need to clean this script up!  It's one of Matt's archive scripts
> that can't pass muster with use strict or the -T switch.  :-)");
> 
> print p("Meanwhile, you can simply " .
> a({href=>"http://www.dsj.net/compedge/"}, "click here ") . "and
> browse the directory of articles yourself.  Find whatever seems
> interesting to you.");
> 
> # Start printing the table
> 
> print "<table align=center border=1>\n";
> print th( "Files:"), th( "Created:"), th("Last Accessed:");
> 
> opendir (DIR,"$directory");
> while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) {
>   if ($file =~ /\.html$/) {
>     open(FILE,"$directory/$file");
>     while (<FILE>) {
>       chomp;
>       (my $line) = $_;
>       if ($line =~ /<title>/i) {
>         # only catches titles on one line...fix later...
>         (my $title = $line) =~ s#(<title>)(.*)(</title>)#$2#i;
> 
> 	my $info = stat($file);
> 
>         my $created = $info->mtime;
>         my $accesslast = $info->atime;
> 
> 
> 	print Tr( td( a({href=>"$dir/$file"}, "<b>$title</b>")),
> 	td( "Created: $created"), td("Accessed last: $accesslast"));
> 	next;
>       }
>     }
>     close FILE;
>   }
> 
> }
> 
> # close up the table
> print "</table>\n";
> 
> close DIR;
> 
> 
> print end_html();
> 
> 	###############  SNIP  ##################
> 
> TIA!
> 
> 
> -- 
> David S. Jackson                                 http://www.dsj.net
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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