On Saturday 24 June 2006 14:31, roparzhhemon wrote:
> hello all,
>
> I'm trying to define within Ocaml a function
>
> modification_date : string -> Int64
>
> such that modification_date(fname) is the
modification date,
> in seconds, of the file fname.
>
> In bash I would do something like this :
>
> stat -s fname
> echo $st_mtime
>
> so I tried the following :
>
> let modification_date fname =
> let chan=open_out "temp" in
> let action1=Unix.system ("stat -s
"^fname) in
> let action2=Unix.system ("echo
$st_mtime>temp ") in
> Int64.of_string( input_line (open_in
"temp") );;
>
> This doesn´t work (always raises the exception
"Failure int_of_string").
> Any suggestions ?
How about:
# let modification_date file = (Unix.stat
file).Unix.st_mtime;;
val modification_date : string -> float = <fun>
You could convert to Int64 if you wanted.
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...> wrote:
> How about:
>
> # let modification_date file = (Unix.stat
file).Unix.st_mtime;;
> val modification_date : string -> float =
<fun>
>
> You could convert to Int64 if you wanted.
>
> --
> Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
> Objective CAML for Scientists
>