From: Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>
Date: 2009-03-14T04:33:31+09:00
Subject: regular expression / gsub question

Hi
Do you know how use a regular expression to get only the scripname from
the each filename below? I have long filename and I want to pull out a
segment "scriptname" only. I have been using a regular expression with
gsub for this.

filename

userfilename_scriptname_030109.txt
userfilename3_scriptname1_031109.txt
userfilename_scriptname0_031209.txt


The gsub didn't work because the _ on both sides causes me to delete the
whole filename. What would you recommend?

stripfirstpart = filename.gsub(/*_/,"")
stripsecondpart = filename.gsub(/_.*/,"")
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