Reading date of a file

I'm trying to obtain a date of creation of a file with :

          [dum,str] = dos('dir myfile.txt');

          c = textscan(str,'%s');

          createdate = c{1}{15}

but I want to put my Matlab variable as in :

        [dum,str] = dos('dir', strcat(myfile));
        c = textscan(str,'%s');
        createdate = c{1}{15}
        disp(createdate);

And it doesnt work, how do I do it ??

Cheers

Damian

Answer 1

[Kelly Kearney]

Why not just use dir?

A = dir(myfile);
disp(A.date)

But if you want to call the dos command:

 [dum, str] = dos(sprintf('dir %s', mfile));
 c = textscan(str,'%s');
 createdate = c{1}{15};
 disp(createdate);

[Damian]

I used the shorter option, thanks, and since I'm in Poland I see here something like :

07-lip-2014 03:35:30

I want to store it, but how would I make it look like

07-07-2014 03:35:30

??

do I need to take care of all the cases of 12 months now ??

[Kelly Kearney]

Use datestr:

 str = datestr(A.datenum, 'dd-mm-yyyy HH:MM:SS');