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Default extract characters from filename

I need a formula which will extract the last 4 characters from a file
name (before the extension). I would then need to convert this to the
proper date format if possible. For example, if the file name is
09291005.xls, I would want to extract the "1005", and have that become
the date, "10/05/2008. Is it possible to format a cell so that it
shows the date in this way, after extracting the information from the
filename?

Thanks in advance for any assistance...

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