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Extracting File Size
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:35 pm
by warrenk
I loaded a list of files (detail information) into tAllFiles. How do I extract the size from the list into a variable? Is there a command that allows me to extract this?
repeat for each line tFile in tAllFiles
...not sure about the command to extract the file size?
Thanks,
Warren
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:54 pm
by Janschenkel
The file size (in bytes) is in the second item - and if you're on Mac, you may also be interested in the third item for _very_ old files which also contain a resource fork.
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put the detailed files into tDetailedFiles
repeat for each line tDetailedFile in tDetailedFiles
put item 1 of tDetailedFile into tFileName
put item 2 of tDetailedFile into tFileSize
divide tFileSize by 1024 -- convert to KB
put tFileName & comma & tFileSize & return after tFileNamesAndSizes
end repeat
delete char -1 of tFileNamesAndSizes -- remove trailing return
If you're looking at converting the creation or modification dates, those are given as 'seconds', so you're looking at
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put item 4 of tDetailedFile into tCreationDate
convert tCreationDate from seconds to system date and system time
Hope this helped,
Jan Schenkel.
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:00 pm
by warrenk
Jan,
Thanks for taking your time to help me out. Really appreciate it!
Warren