I would actually prefer to get an answer to my questions as once you have a certain question you should always try to find an answer for it.
I'm sure taking only certain digits can be useful in certain situations. One that I can think of is showing a player's money in thousands. E.g $100216 -> $100k. Obviously you would need to adjust it to make sure it doesn't show 1234 as 123k and so on.
I don't consider it a waste of time as it says in that XY problem page. I had a question and I got an answer and learned something, I'm thankful to those that answered.
But lol @:
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n00b doesn't actually want the last 3 chracters in a filename, he wants the file extensions, so why ask for the last 3 characters?
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