V1 <- c("path/to/file/filename-Aug-4-2017-_to-Aug-4-2017_otherinfo_.csv", "otherpath/to/file/filename-Aug-18-2017-_to-Aug-18-2017_otherinfo_.csv")
df <- as.data.frame(V1)
df$Date <- sub(".*?\\b([A-Za-z]{3}-\\d{1,2}-\\d{4})\\b.*", "\\1", df$V1)
df
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