Is there a method to read files by date modified ?

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Lee Holsenbeck - 29 Sep 2005 21:08 GMT

i have been using the getfiles method, but that retrieves only
alphabetically. i'd like to be able to retrieve filenames in a directory by
thier date modified.
does .net have a method for this ?
the closest i can see is to use the file system object.

thanks in advance,
Lee

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Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP] - 29 Sep 2005 22:17 GMT

> i have been using the getfiles method, but that retrieves only
> alphabetically. i'd like to be able to retrieve filenames in a directory
> by
> thier date modified.
> does .net have a method for this ?
> the closest i can see is to use the file system object.

You'll probably have to just get the FileInfo objects and sort the
collection yourself. Shouldn't be too hard.

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Scott - 30 Sep 2005 08:53 GMT

Seems to me you could create a class implementing the "IComparer" interface,
put all your FileInfo's into an arraylist then call the
ArrayList.Sort(IComparer) method to get the work done cleanly.

Scott

>> i have been using the getfiles method, but that retrieves only
>> alphabetically. i'd like to be able to retrieve filenames in a directory
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> You'll probably have to just get the FileInfo objects and sort the
> collection yourself. Shouldn't be too hard.

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Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP] - 30 Sep 2005 22:06 GMT

> Seems to me you could create a class implementing the "IComparer"
> interface, put all your FileInfo's into an arraylist then call the
> ArrayList.Sort(IComparer) method to get the work done cleanly.

yeah, that is probably the best way to do it.

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