File extraction -File name is timestamped

Hi Team,
We are loading the data using flat file. The file will be stored in the application directory. we created a logical fiel name and it is used in the data source.
My problem is every day the file is uploaded to the applicaiton directory and the file name will be appended with time stamp
for example
file_01022011123445
file_02022011042015
I tried to handle this by creating an abap routine ,but i am unable to get the exact file name since the timestamp field is dyanamic.I even tried to read the file names from the applicaiton directory using following function modules
SUBST_GET_FILE_LIST
F4_DXFILENAME
FILE_GET_NAME
But it didnot worked. Any suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
Edited by: Jim Jose on Feb 2, 2011 1:04 PM

Hi,
Your file naming convention seems to be "file_ddmmyyyyhhmmss". That means you already know the first 13 characters of the filename you need. ("file_" is constant, the next 8 characters come from sy-datum)
The FM SUBST_GET_FILE_LIST accepts wildcards, so you could give the FILENM parameter as *. It would give you the names of all the files in the directory. After that, it is a matter of ignoring all the files which do NOT begin with those 13 characters. If you have one file being created in the directory for every day, this should work
Regards,
Suhas

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