From: Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>
Date: 2009-02-10T04:46:21+09:00
Subject: search latest version of file in directory

Hi, I have a directory full of files and want to get the newest version
of each out of the directory. The files look like below. Please tell me
if you know a way to pull out the latest version of each. Thanks

34_web1_no2_09202008.txt
34_web1_no2_09212008.txt <--want to pull out this latest version
34_web2_no3_10122008.txt
34_web2_no3_10132008.txt <--want to pull out this latest version

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newsortfile = Dir["C:/Status2/*.html"].map{|@f|
[@f,File.mtime(@f)]}.sort_by{|@i|@i[1]}
@NewestFile = @i[1]

Dir.entries("C:/Status2/").each do |filename|
  if File.mtime("C:/Status2/"+filename) == @NewestFile then
    puts filename
   end
 end
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