Hello,

Jacob Skaria recently provided the very helpful function pasted below. I
have a follow-up question, can the function also include a way to get other
attributes such as: Datecreated, DateLastModified, and DateLastAccessed?

Sub Macro()

MsgBox GetLatestFileName("c:\test")
MsgBox GetLatestFileName("c:\test", "ba*.txt")
End Sub

Function GetLatestFileName(strFolder As String, Optional strFilter As String)
Dim strFile As String, varDT As Variant

strFile = Dir(strFolder & "\" & strFilter, vbNormal)
Do While strFile < ""
If FileDateTime(strFolder & "\" & strFile) varDT Then
varDT = FileDateTime(strFolder & "\" & strFile)
GetLatestFileName = strFile
End If
strFile = Dir
Loop

End Function

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Thanks & Best Regards

On May 7, 2:45*pm, LeeL wrote:
Hello, *

Jacob Skaria recently provided the very helpful function pasted below. *I
have a follow-up question, can the function also include a way to get other
attributes such as: *Datecreated, DateLastModified, and DateLastAccessed?

Sub Macro()

MsgBox GetLatestFileName("c:\test")
MsgBox GetLatestFileName("c:\test", "ba*.txt")
End Sub

Function GetLatestFileName(strFolder As String, Optional strFilter As String)
Dim strFile As String, varDT As Variant

strFile = Dir(strFolder & "\" & strFilter, vbNormal)
Do While strFile < ""
If FileDateTime(strFolder & "\" & strFile) varDT Then
varDT = FileDateTime(strFolder & "\" & strFile)
GetLatestFileName = strFile
End If
strFile = Dir
Loop

End Function

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Thanks & Best Regards

Probably No

You may have to use FileSystemObject.

Ofcourse I will seek Jacob's view

I have code at http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/FileTimes.htm (with a
downloadable example at
http://www.cpearson.com/Zips/GetSetFileDateTime.zip ) that will get
the create date, last modify date, and last access date for a file.
Basically, the code wraps up a number of messy Win API functions and
structures into nice, neat, VBA-friendly functions.

Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP 1998 - 2010
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
[email on web site]





On Fri, 7 May 2010 02:45:01 -0700, LeeL wrote:

Hello,

Jacob Skaria recently provided the very helpful function pasted below. I
have a follow-up question, can the function also include a way to get other
attributes such as: Datecreated, DateLastModified, and DateLastAccessed?

Sub Macro()

MsgBox GetLatestFileName("c:\test")
MsgBox GetLatestFileName("c:\test", "ba*.txt")
End Sub

Function GetLatestFileName(strFolder As String, Optional strFilter As String)
Dim strFile As String, varDT As Variant

strFile = Dir(strFolder & "\" & strFilter, vbNormal)
Do While strFile < ""
If FileDateTime(strFolder & "\" & strFile) varDT Then
varDT = FileDateTime(strFolder & "\" & strFile)
GetLatestFileName = strFile
End If
strFile = Dir
Loop

End Function

As Javed mentioned I have modified using FSO..

Sub Macro()

Dim objFile As Object

'Set objFile = GetLatestFileName("c:\test")
Set objFile = GetLatestFileName("c:\test", "ba*.txt")

MsgBox "Latest File : " & objFile & vbCrLf & _
"Created : " & objFile.DateCreated & vbCrLf & _
"Modified : " & objFile.DateLastModified & vbCrLf & _
"Accessed : " & objFile.DateLastAccessed


End Sub

Function GetLatestFileName(strFolder As String, Optional _
strFilter As String) As Object
Dim fso As Object, objFold As Object, objFile As Object
Dim varDT As Variant, blnFilter As Boolean

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFold = fso.GetFolder(strFolder)

For Each objFile In objFold.Files

blnFilter = False
If strFilter = "" Then
blnFilter = True
Else
If LCase(objFile.Name) Like LCase(strFilter) Then blnFilter = True
End If

If blnFilter Then
If objFile.DateLastModified varDT Then
varDT = objFile.DateLastModified
Set GetLatestFileName = objFile
End If
End If
Next

End Function

--
Jacob (MVP - Excel)


"LeeL" wrote:

Hello,

Jacob Skaria recently provided the very helpful function pasted below. I
have a follow-up question, can the function also include a way to get other
attributes such as: Datecreated, DateLastModified, and DateLastAccessed?

Sub Macro()

MsgBox GetLatestFileName("c:\test")
MsgBox GetLatestFileName("c:\test", "ba*.txt")
End Sub

Function GetLatestFileName(strFolder As String, Optional strFilter As String)
Dim strFile As String, varDT As Variant

strFile = Dir(strFolder & "\" & strFilter, vbNormal)
Do While strFile < ""
If FileDateTime(strFolder & "\" & strFile) varDT Then
varDT = FileDateTime(strFolder & "\" & strFile)
GetLatestFileName = strFile
End If
strFile = Dir
Loop

End Function

--
Thanks & Best Regards