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01-21-2009

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how to get a particular word from a file name of different format.

Hi all,

I need help in getting a particular string from the file name.let me describe my need, i have a directory that has different kind of files

for Eg:

fileone_rat_21012009.txt
filetwo_new_file_21012009.txt
file_old_ntn4_21012009.txt

i have different file formats but all the files end with "_21012009.txt" , here i need to get only the date ie " "21012009" from any one of the file present at the moment in the diretory.

please help me. Thanks in advance.

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