Counting Files by Date

Someone told me we are posting more frequently lately. (For non-accountants, posting means taking the entered transactions and updating other files with the information.) Ever the skeptic, I decide to see for myself. Whenever we post, we produce a pre-post report in the form of

Pre-Post_Sales_Journal_yyyymmddhhmmss.TXT

PATH is a module level constant pointing to the folder.

If this was more than a one-off program, I would have written this line in a way that you could read it. The inner Split creates an array like

[0] = Pre-Post_Sales_Journal_yyyymmddhhmmss, [1] = .TXT

and I take the first element (the zeroth index) of the array. Then I split that further

[0] = Pre-Post, [1] = Sales, [2] = Journal, [3] = yyyymmddhhmmss

and I take the fourth element (index = 3) of that array. That’s my date in string form.

I put a bunch of dates in column A of sheet1 for as far back as I wanted to go. Then I add 1 to the cell to the right of the date. It turns out we are posting more frequently.