Hi Guys. Got a question for you.

I am tinkering around with Perl & Win32. I am using Activestate Perl 5.6 (Active build 630). And I am experiencing some strange behaviour. Please take a look at the code posted below :

#!perl -w
use strict;        


    print "Enter Directory Path : \n";
    chomp(my $dirPath = <STDIN>);
    opendir (DIR, "$dirPath") || die "Fscked Filesystem: $!\n";
    my @fileList = grep(!/^\.\.?$/, readdir (DIR));
    closedir (DIR);
    
    
    foreach my $file (@fileList)
    {
        check_files($file,$dirPath);
        
    }
    
    ## SUBS ##
    
    sub check_files 
    {
        
        my $file = shift;
        my $dirPath = shift;
        
        if  (-A $file > 30)
        {
        print "$file has not been used for over 30 days.  Delete? [y/n
+]\n";
        chomp(my $ans = <STDIN>);
            if ($ans =~ /^y/)
            {
            unlink ("$dirPath\\$file") || die "Could Not Remove $file 
+: $!\n";
            print "Deleting $dirPath\\$file...\n";
            } else {
            print "Skipping File...\n";
            }
        } 
    }
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It is a little script that searches through a directory, checks the last modification of a file, and prompts the user for deletion if it meets certain criteria. As I said, I'm just tinkering. Now, the code at the moment checks for last usage of 30 days or under, here :

if  (-A $file < 30)

And this will work. But, I want to have this :

 if (-A $file > 30)

Where it will check for usage of 30 days or more. This is where Perl coughs and splutters and throws

Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at....

What's up with that?

Azatoth a.k.a Captain Whiplash

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