[PLUG] Perl question

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

In the shell I can easily compare the dates of two files:

$  if [ .y2log -nt .y2log-1 ]; then
     echo .y2log is newer than .ylog-1
   else
     echo .y2log is older than .ylog-1
   fi
.y2log is newer than .ylog-1
$

So what is the similar perl idiom for comparing file dates?

I have to compare 166,000 (+) pairs of files and I'd rather
do it with perl.  Particularly since I open the directory
and read the filenames into a hash which turns out to be
wicked-fast for processing the file names.

Thanks,

Eric

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