=head1 NAME
-perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 2005/10/13 19:49:13 $)
+perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.40 $, $Date: 2005/11/10 16:06:07 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
or IO::Socket:
use IO::Socket; # this one is kinda a pipe?
- my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new( 'www.example.com:80' ) ;
+ my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new( 'www.example.com:80' );
$sock->autoflush();
If you want to retrieve the time at which the file was last
read, written, or had its meta-data (owner, etc) changed,
-you use the B<-M>, B<-A>, or B<-C> file test operations as
+you use the B<-A>, B<-M>, or B<-C> file test operations as
documented in L<perlfunc>. These retrieve the age of the
file (measured against the start-time of your program) in
days as a floating point number. Some platforms may not have