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Getting File creation data/time [message #14716]

Mon, 22 March 1999 00:00

Armand J. L. Jongen is currently offline

Armand J. L. Jongen
Messages: 9
Registered: April 1997

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Hi,

I am probably missing something completely but I am not able to find a
function/routine to get a file creation data/time. The obvious
work-around (Win9x, IDL 5.2):

FileName=Dialog_pickfile(/read)

; Pipeline the output of the dir command to a file

DOSCommand='dir '+FileName+' > datetime.txt'
Spawn, DosCommand

; Open the fie, read the output and delete it after closing

OpenR, lun, 'datetime.txt', /Get_Lun, /Delete
Skip=StrArr(6)
Readf, lun, Skip
Close, lun
Free_lun, lun

; Pull out the dat and time fields

Pieces=STRTRIM(STR_Sep(Skip[5], ' '),2)
Pieces=Pieces(Where(Pieces NE ''))

FileDate=Pieces[3]
FileTime=Pieces[4]

failes when there are spaces in the FileName, as the dir-command is
unable to handle these. Before writing a little piece of C-code to do
the job I wondered if somebody has any suggestions.

Ta!

Armand

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