How to know owner of a file without ls and find command

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using the stat syscall
f.eg in perl
@fstat=stat("file") or die("cannot stat file");
@owner=getpwuid($fstat[4]);
printf "%s;%s;%s;%s;%s\n", $f, $owner[0], $fstat[7], $fstat[8], "$fstat[10]" ;

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