[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:27:15PM CEST]:
> I have strings of the form
>
> TICKER.GGG.XXXXXX.dat
>
> but GGG is not always three characters so I can't use substr to pull it
> out of the string.
>
> Could someone tell me how to use sub to pull out the GGG
Doesn't strsplit() help you more easily here?
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