File Naming with parts of names and dates (substrings)

I am trying to settle on a filenaming convention that Lightroom doesn't support, but does exist in Breezebrowser and in many database languages.
It is a function that allows using just part of one of the other available file naming elements, instead of the full thing. This helps keep file names shorter but still meaningful.
For example, one piece of the naming convention I'm trying for is just the sequential number generated by my camera, but without the camera specific designator. For file '_C8P7692', for example, I just want to use the '7692' part.
This could be accomplished if I could specify in the file name builder that I only want to use those characters. It would look something like:
SUBSTRING(filename,5,4), where 5 is the character I want to start with, and 4 is the number of characters I want to take.
This would also address some of the other feature requests for variations on the date formats built into the file name builder.
Paul Wasserman

You can do that one in LR easily.
Use "(filename or original) number suffix" instead of "filename".

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