in reply to extracting numbers from a string
perldoc -f substr perldoc perlre
the regular expression code would look something like
$filename='XX-ZZ-YYYYMMDDHH' $filename =~ /^(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})$/; # $1 is XX, $2 is ZZ, and so on
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