Find Max Date Change in a list of files in a folder

[#1]

Is there a way to get the Max Date Modified in a folder.  I have the following folder location:

C:\Users\dyoung\Documents\Qlik\Sense\Apps\F_Gates\backups\

In that folder I have a bunch of back files that look like this:

Name                                                                      Date Modified

backup_F_Gates_160214_0006.dist                          2/14/2016

backup_F_Gates_160212_0008.dist                          5/15/2016

backup_F_Gates_160233_0010.dist                          4/20/2016

backup_F_Gates_160244_0011.dist                          3/13/2016

I would want to only return:

backup_F_Gates_160212_0008.dist                          5/15/2016

Is this possible?  I have posted this in other places and tried it in other discussion groups but I could not get it to work. 

Here is the code I used.  I created a folder connection to Backups.

set vPath = 'Backups';

for each File in filelist ('Backups\backup_F_Gates_*.dist')

fileTable:

Load '$(File)' as Name,

  num(FileTime('$(File)')) as FileTime

  autogenerate 1;

next File

Modified_Time:

Load max(Filetime) as ModifiedTime

Resident fileTable;

let vMaxTime = num(peek('ModifiedTime',0,'Modified_Time'));

if len(TableNumber('fileTable')) >= 1 then

FinalTMP:

LOAd

SubField(Name,'\',-1)as File,

rowno() as Recno

RESIDENT fileTable

WHERE FileTime > '$(vMaxTime)'+0.001

ORDER BY FileTime desc;

Drop table fileTable;

Let VMxRows = NoOfRows('FinalTMP');

if  $(VMxRows) >0 then

for i=0 to $(VMxRows)-1

let FileRead = peek('File',$(i),'FinalTMP');

Data:

Load *,

FileName() as Filename,

FileTime() as FileTime

From $(vPath)\$(FileRead);

I tried to code but it is not working.  There is a way I am sure to get it.  Any help would be awesome. 

Thanks,

David

[swuehl]

Could you explain what you want to achieve with

FinalTMP:

LOAd

SubField(Name,'\',-1)as File,

rowno() as Recno

RESIDENT fileTable

WHERE FileTime > '$(vMaxTime)'+0.001;

?

And with the code that follows that table?

I would have thought that a table load like

Modified_Time:

Load

     Timestamp(max(Filetime)) as ModifiedTime,

     FirstSortedValue(Name, -Filetime) as LastModifiedFileName

Resident fileTable;

should return your requested record.

[#3]

‌That was code that someone had me try so I am not sure what it does.  My goal is to get the latest or max date modified in a folder.  If you look at the response above I have a folder called Backups.

each file in the folder has file with *backup and a date modified.

So the folder has 30 backup files and I want the file with the latest edition modified date. 

Example of folder

*.backup01  Modified date 2/3/2016

*.backup02  Modifed date 5/16/1016

*.backup03  Modifed date 4/3/2016

*.backup04  Modifed date 3/16/2016

I want the response to return me *.backup02 only since it was the max modified date.  I hope this makes since. 

Thanks

David