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This question hit the R-help list, and I thought I'd list all the given solutions, including mine using regular expressions:

This person had a variable 'x':

x
[1] "2005-09-01"

And he wanted to create three variables, y, m, and d, such that:

y = 2005
m = 09
d = 01

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