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Old 10-06-2009, 12:47 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by chrism01 View Post
Don't create a filename with special chars, especially (sic) '/', it's the dir sigil.
Typically, people go for a format YYYYMMDD_HHMM eg

fname_20091006_0905.log

Note the leading zeros. These filenames will sort nicely automatically/naturally.
yeah thanks for that chris. oh yeah looking at it, it would sort naturlay.

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