rdharles 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
def extract(s):
return s[s.rfind('_')+1:s.rfind('.')]
George