From: "Jan E." Date: 2012-10-15T17:17:02+09:00 Subject: Re: best way to extract data from a string? 7stud -- wrote in post #1079843: > Whoever wrote that script was not thinking ahead. Very true. Anything (even a crappy CSV) would have been better than mangling all data in the file name. What if the original filename already includes an underscore (which is not that unlikely)? Good luck parsing it. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.