unintialized value in number lt (<) at error

[Jason Forget]

Hello all,

I am receive the unintialized value in number lt (<) at error when
running the below perl script. The error is indicated on line 34.
The challenge I face is that this script was written by one person;
modified by another and I am tasked to fix it. I am a beginner to
perl scripting. From what I've read, the (<) needs to be
initialized...???

The script is called to delete files from a directory beyond a certain
date.

#!\Perl\bin\perl -w
# usage: DeleteFiles.pl <dir> <#days>
#use strict;

# sub recurse($) {
sub recurse {
# my($path) = @_;
my($path) = $_[0];
my($days) = $_[1];
my($seconds) = $days*24*60*60;
## append a trailing / if it's not there
$path .= '\\' if($path !~ /\/$/);
print "Set to delete from ... $path\n";
##$path = '\\Working_Temp\\';
##print "Hard coded to delete from: $path\n";
## print the directory being searched
##print $path,"\n";
open (MYFILE, '>>deletes.bat');


## loop through the files contained in the directory
for my $eachFile (glob($path.'*')) {

## if the file is a directory
if( -d $eachFile) {
## pass the directory to the routine ( recursion )
print "recursing $eachFile\n";
recurse($eachFile, $days);
} else {

## print the file ... tabbed for readability
my $now = time;
my @stat = stat("$eachFile");
if ($stat[9] < ($now - $seconds))
{
#print "del $eachFile\n";
print MYFILE "del \"$eachFile\"\n";
unlink("$eachFile");
print "Done.\n";
} print "\t",$eachFile,"\n";
}
}
}

## initial call ... $ARGV[0] is the first command line argument
recurse($ARGV[0], $ARGV[1]);
#close (MYFILE);