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Find The Latest Modified File In A Single Directory In Uipath






Example




Picture showing list of files in the folder
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  1. Drag and drop the "Assign" activity and assign the value to the string variable "MostRecentFile" to
    2. (new DirectoryInfo("C:\temp\Articles")).GetFiles().OrderByDescending(function(x) x.LastWriteTimeUtc).FirstOrDefault().FullName


    Picture showing the Assign activity to assign the value of most recent file name to the MostRecentFile variable
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  2. Display the value of the "MostRecentFile" variable in the message box
    3. Picture showing the message box activity to display the value of the MostRecentFile variable
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  3. Save and run the bot

Output


Picture showing the message box with the value of the most recent file name
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Posted By  -  Karan Gupta
 
Posted On  -  Friday, March 12, 2021

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