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filedate

Report the modification date of a file

Description

filedate reports the modification date of a file when given a file pathname.

Arguments

None.

Messages

anything pathname [list]
A file pathname. An absolute pathname looks like this:
'MyDisk:/Max Folder/extras/filename'

Information for box attributes common to all objects

Output

list: Sends the date that the file was last changed as a list (month, day, year, hours, minutes and seconds).

Examples

filedate displays how recently a file has been changed

See Also

Name Description
date Report current date and time
filein Read in a file of binary data
filepath Report information about the current Max search path
folder List the files in a specific folder
opendialog Open a dialog to ask for a file or folder