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Is there a way that one can pick up substrings from the end of the string rather than the front of the string. Say i have two strings:
apple_20050603.txt
apples_20050603.txt
I would like to extract the datepart 20050603 from both strings in a generic code. Is this possble?
Jun 19 '07 #1
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