Extract charachters from filename

[TuMiM]

How can I extract characters from a file name? I know how to use the stringtrimright and left but i need to get specific parts of the file name into different variables. The filename is in the following format APBR20091130a.LST . I need the first two as a variable which i can do with stringtrimleft but how do i get the 2009 as a variable 09, the month as a variable and the day asa variable and drop the rest?

[Melba23]

TuMiM,

If all the file names have exactly the same format (MMMMYYYYTTTTa.ext) then you can do it like this:

$sFileName = "APBR20091130a.LST"

$sMonth = StringMid($sFileName, 1, 4)
$sYear = StringMid($sFileName, 7, 2)
$sTime = StringMid($sFileName, 9, 4)

MsgBox(0, "Extracted", $sMonth & @CRLF & $sYear & @CRLF & $sTime)

If you have variable sized elements, we need to rethink.

M23