Parse files in directory newer than MM/DD/YYYY

Question

In the attached VI I am trying to figure out how to pull in and parse all .txt log files in Folder path newer than a particular date instead of just the *.txt (all text files) as it is set to now. The date I will be entering from a sub VI is a string in the format MM/DD/YYYY. The date & time are included in the file names. The comma delimited .txt file names are broken down into "TesterID UUTSerial# Date TimeTested.txt". I have attached one of the comma delimited .txt files that the path contains. Anyone have any suggestions? I am running LV2009 SP1.
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Concatenate Files.vi ‏12 KB
2 123456789 Jun 24 2010 124729.txt ‏1 KB

Answer 1

Extracting the date from the filename and comparing it to an input date seemed like a fun thing to write.  So I wrote a VI to do that.  Here it is.  Just wire in the filenames array and the desired date to compare.  The output is a list of files that are greater than or equal to the specified date.  You can change the compare function if you want something different.  The filename must have a 3-letter month followed by a space, followed by a date, another space, the year, a space then whatever else.  The compare date must be in the form mm/dd/yyyy.
- tbob
Inventor of the WORM Global
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File_GTEQ_Date.vi ‏22 KB