Select lates excel file from excel file list using c#.net

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I have a list of excel file and i want to select latest excel file on the basis of date.can anyone tell me the code for this.i want to achieve in c#.net.
My format of excel file is:--Weekly_Monthly_Hours_Reference_Sheet_03-28-11.xls

Posted 2-Nov-11 18:05pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Nov-11 0:07am

What does it mean: "select Excel file"? Where?
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Prerak Patel · Answer 1 · 2011-11-02T20:18:00

0) Get a date variable for latest date, and string variable for file.
1) Loop through the excel files.
1.1) Get the last 8 characters of name of the file. Ref: GetFileNameWithoutExtension[^], SubString[^]
1.2) Convert them to date. Ref: Convert.ToDateTime[^]
1.3) If it is newer then latest date or latest date is null then store date in latest date, and file name in file variable.
2) When you are out of loop, you'll have the latest file in the file variable.