Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I can't find anything on the forums, which is par for the course, evwn
> though I know it's been discussed. Is there an LC way to get details
> about a file without shelling out to do it? I need to get the last
> modified date of a file so I can check to see if I need to update the
> version in a database when importing it. I would very much NOT like
> having to get the detailed files of a folder and filter for the file I
> am looking for as I already have a path to the actual file, and a
> folder may contain a lot of files.
I do not believe this has been implemented yet:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20384
That said, wasteful as "the detailed files" is it's probably more
efficient in most cases than the overhead of initing a shell session.
I've had good performance even in directories with tens of thousands of
files.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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