How can I get the file creation date using URL resourceValues method in Swift 3?

Question

Thanks to a variety of helpful posts in this forum, I have some code that works for obtaining the Creation Date of a single user-selected NSURL. However, I cannot get the c

Answer 1

in swift 5 I use the following code:

let attributes = try! FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(atPath: item.path)
let creationDate = attributes[.creationDate] as! Date

sort array with the following code

fileArray = fileArray.sorted(by: {
        $0.creationDate.compare($1.creationDate) == .orderedDescending
    })

more about FileAttributeKey here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/fileattributekey