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Old 11-17-2008
mainegate mainegate is offline
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detecting the part of a filename
I like to have the date in the 2008-09-01 format at the beginning of my filenames. I then hyphenate after that and then have my filename.

I have a script that creates this for me. However, I may be working on files that already have the date format already in there and so I don't want to have a date twice. Is there a way to detect number or something at the beginning of the filename and if so then cut out the date?