On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Todd Geist <t...@geistinteractive.com> wrote: > I found Trevor's FilesAndFolders library, and he has a fileGetInfo function > in there. Thanks Trevor, but wow, thats a lot of work to get the file > Properties.
Couldn't find Trevor's FilesAndFolders so not sure how complex it is, but in line with an earlier post of mine about the niceties of using LC with Unix tools, here's a possible solution that will work on Linux and Mac, and I believe Win (but not certain). Check the man page for ls - type 'man ls' (without single quotes) at the prompt in a Terminal window or use Bwana on Mac: http://www.bruji.com/bwana/ You'll note the -l option gives the long output which includes the modification date and time; something like this: -rw-r--r--@ 1 yourname staff 434086 4 Dec 00:31 /Users/yourname/Documents/Dropbox/MX Bus Timetables/S8.pdf Although ls normally outputs all the files from a directory, as stated in the synopsis you can just use a single file name if that's all you're after. So in LC you could --previous script that extracts full path name into tPathName --surround tPathName in single quotes --this avoids problems if folder or file names include spaces put "'" & tPathName & "'" into tPathName --build shell command put "ls -l" && tPathName into tShellCommand --run shell command put shell(tShellCommand) into tInfo --extract just the date info --this uses regex to extract the only instance of a single or double digit, then space, --followed by exactly 3 letters, then space, followed by exactly 2 digits, --a colon another 2 digits, then a space get matchText(tInfo,".+\s(\d{1,2} \w{3} \d{2}:\d{2})\s.+",tDateTime) --or extract the date, month and time separately --by using additional parenthesis () get matchText(tInfo,".+\s(\d{1,2}) (\w{3}) (\d{2}:\d{2})\s.+",tDate,tMonth,tTime) -- you now have the modification date and time --do with it whatever you need to. Richmond might point out that the regex in this case could be avoided by simply: put word 6 of tInfo into tDate put word 7 of tInfo into tMonth put word 8 of tInfo into tTime which would be correct, as in this case, users and group names cannot be multi-word (contain spaces). But there are lots of output where the data before the info you are looking for is many and varied, and the data after the info your looking for is many and varied, but the info itself is unique and follows a simple pattern, such as Date & Time, email address, web address, specific file names; etc, etc. In these cases matchText and regex is your friend. As I stated in an earlier post, with regex I always test it first in RegExhibit - OS X http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25327/regexhibit because if it works in RegExhibit it works with LC's matchText(). So if I'm using shell() I always test it first by running the command in Terminal - OS X. If you are on Mac you should know the easiest way to get a full file pathname into Terminal is simply drag and drop; so type 'ls -l ' (with a trailing space but no quotes) at the prompt and then drag a file into the Terminal Window - then press Return. The only other thing to NOTE is if you do this, instead of surrounding pathnames with single quotes Terminal will automatically escape spaces in folder and file names with the back slash character: Multi Word File Name becomes Multi\ Word\ File\ Name. HTH _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
