FileFindNextFile

[herworth]

That's it really. Does it return files in date order or perhaps alphabetical by name or some other method? If you have, say, 10 files in a folder which one will be last?

Thanks guys.

[Wolvereness]

Alpha... But filetypes come to mind... Why don't you test it out?

$Handle = FileFindFirstFile('*')
While Not @Error
MsgBox(0,'',FileFindNextFile($Handle))
WEnd

/Edit OOPS, forgot the closeing )

Edited January 20, 2005 by Wolvereness

[herworth]

I thought alpha but it didn't seem to work every time. Probably me , missing something.

Thanx

[ezzetabi]

AFAIK there is not a predicable order.

[sugi]

They are in a specific order. But not alphabetic, by date or something like that. It depends on the filesystem.

For FAT the order is as follows: FAT creates the entries in the directories on a top-to-bottom principle but whenever there are gaps because a file or directory has been deleted this gap is filled from top to bottom before the list is extended. Note that long file/directory names can take up more than one entry which makes it even harder to guess what comes next. So if you can guarantee that nothing is deleted from a directory, the entries are in the order of the creation dates.

[herworth]

Thanks everyone.

I'm trying to get the most recent file from a list which I write to an ini. I'll have to work a piece of script to read and select as opposed to just selecting what I assume is last.