How to get the Create Date and Modified Date of a file

[aribano]

Does anybody know how to get the Create Date and Modified
Date of a file, having the path and filename.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Bob Yoder]

I don't know the answer, but a guy named Vikas probably does. Hopefully he
will read your post and give you a better clue. I am also interested in the
answer to this question. Here is a post he wrote a while ago about how to
find a particular file:

Hi,
Is the name of the file is fixed? and the path of the file may vary from
time-to time? If yes, then you can use windows API function FindFirstFile()
to search for the path of your file. The declaration is:
Function ulong FindFirstFile (string lpFileName, ref WIN32_FIND_DATA
lpFindFileData) Library "KERNEL32.DLL" Alias for "FindFirstFileA"

And the structures:

global type WIN32_FIND_DATA from structure
unsignedlong fileattributes
filetime creationtime
filetime lastaccesstime
filetime lastwritetime
unsignedlong filesizehigh
unsignedlong filesizelow
unsignedlong reserved0
unsignedlong reserved1
character filename[260]
character alternatefilename[14]
end type

global type FILETIME from structure
ulong dwLowDateTime
ulong dwHighDateTime
end type

refer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/findfirstfile.asp
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/win32_find_data_str.asp
for more details.

Also other related functions :
Function boolean FindClose (ulong hFindFile) Library "KERNEL32.DLL"
Function boolean FindNextFile (ulong hFindFile, ref WIN32_FIND_DATA
lpFindFileData) Library "KERNEL32.DLL" Alias for "FindNextFileA"

Ofcourse, if your drive contains multiple files with the same name, you may
need the FindNextFile () function.

After you find the file, you can use FileCopy /FileMove function to move the
file to desired location.

Revert in case of further queries.

Regards,
Vikas

<Ari Bano> wrote in message news:41237a0b.395...@sybase.com...

[Bruce Armstrong [TeamSybase]]

Look at the PFC methods that get those values using the FindFirstFileA
Windows API function to get that info.

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