regexp with _ recognized as a letter
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when you use regexp regexp(Date, '(?<=Month=)\w+', 'match')
Date=Year2012_MonthMay_Day05
this character '_' is recognized as a letter??? so the information of the month can not be separated properly
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Walter Roberson
on 7 Apr 2017
\w does not match "letters"
"\w Any alphabetic, numeric, or underscore character. For English character sets, \w is equivalent to [a-zA-Z_0-9]"
If you want to match English letters then use [a-zA-Z]
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Guillaume
on 7 Apr 2017
No you cannot use \w. It's trivial to replace it with something that would work. I assume
regexp(Date, '(?<=Month)[^_]+', 'match')
would probably work for you. Note that I've removed the = you had after Month since it would have failed to match your example string.
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