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I guess you are concatenating timestamp with your file name.if so then, you can create a ( Time::piece ) object using  strptime() function in this module.So that you can get the data from the object directly.Otherwise please tell me, how you generate this numbers, let we try that side also.
more info for Time::piece
-kulls.