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Sorting an ADIR by date modified
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21/10/2008 11:38:07
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01356078
Message ID:
01356087
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20
I was hoping

=aSort(aa, 4)
=aSort(aa, 3)

would work, by first sorting the times, then the dates, leaving the time as a sub-sort.

I still don't understand why it doesn't work, to be honest, but it doesn't.


>Never mind.
>
>>
>>I just wrote this to sort an adir array by datetime modified.
>>
>>If I'm not mistaken, this should avoid any problem with ambiguous dates despite using CTOT().
>>
>>But it seems like a clunky way to do it. I figured I'd just ask for fun if there are any other creative ways of doing this.
>>
>>
>>nFiles = ADIR(aa)
>>FOR i = 1 TO nFiles
>>aa[i, 5] = DATETIME(YEAR(aa[i, 3]), MONTH(aa[i, 3]), DAY(aa[i, 3]), ;
>>	HOUR(CTOT(aa[i, 4])), MINUTE(CTOT(aa[i, 4])), SEC(CTOT(aa[i, 4])))
>>ENDFOR 
>>=ASORT(aa, 5)
>>
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