(ichimunki) Re x 4: Extract string from rear of string

[ichimunki]

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Begging your pardon, but the split shown returns the last bit of stuff after the final dot, which I think complies with the rather vague request of getting the extension. In your example, the extension is 'gz' after all. That's the beauty of negative indices, they work from the other end.