Below is a utlity method to delete a number of files in a path programatically by file extension from sorting them from oldest to newest of their modified date. The method uses an array to collect all the files in the path and then extracts the appropriate file type to another array. To reference the file's modified date, in order to sort, another array would be used. Calling SORT ARRAY sorts both the file type modified date and file type arrays by date in decending order to delete a number of files from oldest to newest.

// ----------------------------------------------------------------- // Name: DELETE_FILES_FROM_OLDEST_DATE // Description: Takes the path to where to delete the files, the // file extension type to delete, and thenumber of files to delete // from the oldest date. // // Parameters: // $1 (TEXT) - Path to where the files delete // $2 (TEXT) - File extension type to delete // $3 (LONGINT) - Number of files to delete from the oldest date // ----------------------------------------------------------------- C_TEXT($path;$1) // path of where the file(s) are located C_TEXT($type_input;$2) // file extension type of the file selected C_TEXT($type) // type of extensions C_LONGINT($i;$last_num_files;$3) // last number of files to delete C_DATE($modified_on) // date of the file that has been modified C_DATE($date_temp;$date_working) // Use for the 2D array ARRAY TEXT($folder_array;0) // array for the file names in a path ARRAY TEXT($file_type_array;0) // array for the file type ARRAY DATE($file_type_modified_date_array;0) // array for the file type modified date If (Count parameters>2)    $path:=$1    $type_input:=Lowercase($2) // force characters to be lowercase    $last_num_files:=$3    DOCUMENT LIST($path;$folder_array) //puts the files names on a array    For ($i;1;Size of array($folder_array)       $type:=Document type($folder_array{$i}) // determine type       $type:="@"+$type+"@" // wild card file extension       If ($type_input=Lowercase($type)) // for the extension to be lowercase          GET DOCUMENT PROPERTIES($path+"\\"+$folder_array{$i};$locked;$invisible;\          $created_on;$created_at;$modified_on;$modified_at)          APPEND TO ARRAY($file_type_array;$folder_array{$i})          APPEND TO ARRAY($file_type_modified_date_array;$modified_on)       End if    End for    // validate number of files to delete to what was found    If (Size of array($file_type_array)>=$last_num_files)          // sorting by decending order by oldest date           SORT ARRAY($file_type_modified_date_array;$file_type_array;>)        // Delete the number of files from oldest to newest       For ($i;1;$last_num_files)          DELETE DOCUMENT($path+"\\"+$file_type_array{$i})       End for    End if End if

An example of using the method to delete 10 text files of ".txt" extension that are in a path.

DELETE_FILES_FROM_OLDEST_DATE ($path;".txt";10)