Getting data file was last modified in ProvideX

Does anyone have code/syntax they'd be willing to share that would allow me to open a file in ProvideX and determine the month, day, year a file was last modified? I've looked at the ProvideX manuals, but I'm not seeing what I need or the exact syntax to do this. I'd like to compare the value of this to DTE(0:"%Mz%Dz%Yz"). For example, this value for today (11/15/10) would be "111510".

Thanks in advance!

Brad Kraft, Forsythe Associates, Inc.

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slonschek

Check the fin() function in the manual. Not sure which one you need, but here are the 3 that look most likely to answer your question.

UTC_CTime - Creation/changed time, UTC in seconds since Jan 1,1970
UTC_MTime - Last modified time, UTC in seconds since Jan 1,1970.
UTC_ATime - Last accessed time, UTC in seconds since Jan 1,1970.

Hope this helps.

James Crowther
Sequoia Group, Inc.

Legacy Contributor

this should get you close:
0010 floating point
0020 open (1)"prog/SM/SMU970"
0030 secs=dec($00$+mid(fin(1),5,4))
0040 days=int(secs/86400)
0050 secs=secs-(days*86400)
0060 this_date=jul(1970,1,1)+days
0070 print dte(this_date:"%Mz%Dz%Yz")
0080 hours=secs/3600
0090 print fn%time$(str(hours:"##.00"))

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