rdhar... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> I have thousands of files that look something like this:
>> wisconsin_state.txt
> french_guiana_district.txt
> central_african_republic_province.txt
>> I need to extract the string between the *last* underscore and the
> extention.
> So based on the files above, I want returned:
> state
> district
> province
>> My plan was to use .split or .find but I can't figure out how locate
> only the last underscore in the filename.
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>> Thanks.
> R.D.
Hi,
Try splitting the string on "." and using rfind to find the last
instance of "_".
i.e.,
myStr = "wisconsin_state.txt"
pieces = myStr.split(".")
substr = pieces[0][pieces[0].rfind("_") + 1:]
--hiaips
