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Putting information into a table from the table's filename

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Example: how to extract a date from a filename and add it to each record in the file. An example of this data-processing task would be grabbing the date part of a date-stamped filename and adding it to the table records (assuming they don't have a date), so that the files can be combined for a time-series study.

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