Is there a way to programmatically obtain the date that a file was last
saved and store that information in a macro? I need to compare two files
and make sure that file B is newer than file A. I would like to obtain the
information displayed in describe and store that in a macro. It is not one
of the listed returns. The only solution I have been able to come up with
involves creating a log file, running a describe statement on the dataset,
closing the log file, reading the log file using the file command, going to
the appropriate row and column of the file, and taking a substring to put
the date into memory. There's got to be a better way!
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