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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting Date from string Post 302347928 by r_t_1601 on Thursday 27th of August 2009 02:09:48 AM
Old 08-27-2009
Extracting Date from string

Hi Gurus
I want to extract a date and version code which shall come in filename consisting of underscores.
The filename can contain any / one underscores but the version number will come after date and will be separted by underscore
String formats
=============
ABC_20090815_2.csv
ABC_DEF_20090815_2.csv
ABC_DEF_GH_20090815_2.csv
ABC_DEF_G_I_20090815_2.csv
ABC_DEF_M_N_O_P_20090815_2.csv

In each case i want to extract
date -- 20090815 and
version number -- 2
 

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Debian::L10n::Utils - Utilities for the dl10n tools parse_subject(SUBJECT) parse_subject extract valuable informations from a subject line. It gets a string containing the subject line (SUBJECT). It returns an array containing the status, type, filename strings and bug number if provided or 'undef' if no status is found. parse_from(FROM) parse_from extract the sender name from the 'From:' field. The name is build from the phrase part of the field, or if none is found, from the comment part where parentheses are removed, or if none is found, from the address where all non-alphanumeric characters are turned into spaces. It gets a string containing the 'From:' field (FROM). It returns a string containing the name. parse_date(DATE) parse_date extract the date from a 'Date:' field. It gets a string containing the 'Date:' field (DATE). It returns a string containing the date in ISO format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss AXhh:mm based on GMT LICENSE
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