Read txt

[cleston]

I'm very new at autoit (just did the basic tutorials) and not much of a programmer, so forgive the probably trivial/poorly stated question:

I wanted to open the most recent .txt in a folder full of other .txt documents and put its info in a variable so I can work with it withing autoit. I want to avoid explicitly opening the document and using clipboard (this is the only solution I could think of).

So, is there a function to read a txt directly? Any suggestions on reading the file by date and not by name?

Thanks in advance!

[PsaltyDS]

You can use FileGetTime() to determine the most recent folder. See help file.

To read the entire contents to a variable use FileRead(). The first parameter can be an open file handle, but it doesn't have to be. You can just use the file path and read the whole file at once.

[cleston]

Thank you, PsaltyDS, that was very helpful, FileRead() was exactly what I was looking for.

As for FileGetTime(), I'm not sure how to use it. The thing is that it requires a filename or handle and my difficulty is precisely in getting one of the two. All that I know is the folder where the file is and that I want to open the most recent file. Did you have something in mind?

Perhaps this should be a windows functionality rather than an autoit function? I'm using windows 7, btw.

[JohnOne]

Couple of functions you might want to look at are

FileFindFirstFile() and its related functions FileClose(), and FileFindNextFile(). and loop through the folder checking the dates with the suggested function.

You could also look at _FileListToArray() and loop through a resulting array.

[cleston]

Hum... I think that will work.

Thanks!

[JohnOne]

I hope so.

And not to jump the gun, but when you get there, you should look at the _Date_ functions, maybe _datediff.