It would be helpful to konw the operating system on which you are running SAS. If Windows, you can extract the creation dat of the file using the FINFO function. I'd recommend using something like this: data _null_;
rc=filename('mydir','\\jafile02\IT_Risk\Solvency II\Tracks\Reporting\3Development\2Deliverables\SII Reporting Releases\Testing\R1 Sep 2011 - Test data\SII - Reporting - Test data - Release 1');
did=dopen('mydir');
numopts=doptnum(did);
memcount=dnum(did);
if memcount then
do i = 1 to memcount;
filename=dread(did,i);
b=scan(filename,2,'_');
call missing (c);
if b='EN1I00001' then
do;
C=scan(filename,1,'_');
fid = mopen(did, filename,'i',0,'d');
optname=foptname(fid,2);
recfm=finfo(fid,optname);
optname=foptname(fid,3);
lrecl=finfo(fid,optname);
CrDate=INPUT(finfo(fid,'Create Time'),datetime.);
format CrDate datetime.;
end;
rc=fclose(fid);
put filename = recfm= lrecl= b= c= crDate= ;
end;
rc=dclose(did);
run;
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