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Posted: **27 May 2013 03:44**

Hey all,

I have a variable which has stored the modification date of a file in the format MM/DD/YYYY (ie. 05/27/2013) What I am trying to do is compare the date to today's, and if it is not the same then run a command. I am not sure how to do this because Windows stores the variable %date% as "Day MM/DD/YYYY" (ie. Mon 05/27/2013)

If I try to compare my variable to %DATE% it always comes back false.

example...

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if %myvar%=%date% echo "File has been updated today" else (Run Command Here)

I know this is super simple, I just do not know how to grab part of a variable. Any help would be awesome!

Posted: **27 May 2013 03:54**

you can try this:

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for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ("%date%") do set "cdate=%%i"
echo %cdate%

Posted: **27 May 2013 04:47**

That looks like it will work, but for whatever reason I cannot get it to say it is equal. The statement I gave above was a more simplified version of what I have. This is the code with your code included....

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for %%i in (
   scrfaxp5
   scrfaxp6
   srrfaxp5
   srrfaxp6
   ) do (
for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ("%date%") do set "cdate=%%i"
for /f %%a in ('dir \\%%i\d$\rightfax\Database\MaintAgingAndPurging.log ^|findstr MaintAgingAndPurging.log') do set 
currentserverdate=%%a & if %%i==scrfaxp5 (
set server1=%%i last modified:!currentserverdate!
echo !server1!
if !currentserverdate!==!cdate! (echo Modified Today) else (echo Not Modified Today)
)
)

If I echo !currentserverdate! and !cdate! they both show as 05/27/2013, but for whatever reason when I test to see if they are equal in the IF statement, it doesn't work. It keeps Echoing the 2nd statement "Not Modified Today" even though they are both the same.

Posted: **27 May 2013 05:00**

try it with double quotes:

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do set "currentserverdate=%%a" & ....

Posted: **27 May 2013 05:03**

Yep that was it. Thanks a ton!

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