Hello Community,
Environment: DI Studio 4.8, on a Unix platform
I'd like to create a user defined transform, or piece of user code, that checks the last modified date of an external file (so I can decide whether it should be reloaded). This is going to be used for multiple external files, so it needs to be generalised and neatly packaged, not a one-off bit of hardcoding.
If I have a physical file name, I can use FINFO to get what I need.
But an external file can't be connected to the input of a user defined transform, and while it can be connected to the input of a user defined code transform, its name and physical location aren't then made available in macro variables to the code within.
Any suggestions as to how I might get hold of the file name, or another approach to getting the last mod date?
Thanks,
Dave
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