Chdir problem

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Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', GCC Consulting done said:

> What I would like to do is have use filePro 's system command to print
> this report.
>
> Sounds simple however this is a functional acknowledgement from there
> customers and each acknowledgement is located in a different directory.
> It looks something like this:
>
> C:\edate\GEIS-A\customer_name\ANSI\997\all\997.rpt
>
> The variable here is the customer name and the date of the file 997.rpt
>
> I need to search each customer directory, get the name and if 997.rpt's
> date is equal to today's date, store the directory name in an array.
> Once I have all of the positives, I would the loop through the array
> appending the name into the command an printing the report.
>
> Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this will be greatly
> appreciated.

Are you trying to do all this in fP, or use an external?

I mean, if you have a report and simply need to print a report for any
customer name whose 997.rpt is of today's date, this is something that's
trivial to do in perl, and you could just execute *report from inside
there.  Unless they did something really cool with time and date as far as
handling files (I remember Ken mentioning some @STAT array or something
very similar, though I forget when it's populated) that might have this
info, it's going to be a PITA to obtain and convert that internally to
anything useful.

What you're trying to do could be done as a cron job, system call, or
whatever, with a tiny little perl program doing the grunt work.  Not hard.
Probably not the way you'd like to do it, but it's how -I- would do it,
given the same problem--assuming I understand it fully. 

mark->
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