Finding newest file in all subdirectories

[rodrigolima]

Hello foxidrive

I applied the parser to convert date format ddmmyyyy to yyyymmdd and it worked.

The sort command worked perfectlly.

See you

[foxidrive]

Glad to be of help. Cheers.

[DataGuy]

Please explain this portion of the last line of code: set "%1=%rtn:~18%"

I want to modify the block of code in the above post to only bring back the newest date and not worry about the filename.

I am in process of simplifying the for loop to only utilize the date parameters A, B, C and not worry about the time or the path/filename.

For completeness of understanding, I'd like to know what the above code specifically accomplishes (set "%1=%rtn:~18%").

Thank you.

[aGerman]

%1 is the first parameter passed to the batch file when it was called. Execute CALL /? to learn more.
%rtn:~18% is the substring of the value in %rtn% beginning after the 18th character till the end. Execute SET /? to learn more.

Steffen