How do I specify a dynamic position for the start of substring?

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Published on 2010-06-09T06:28:57Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 6:32 UTC
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As in the example, I am trying to substring the Video_full column in a data.frame (video_data_2) I am working on. I want to keep all the characters after the period. The period is always present, there is only one period and it is in a different position in each value for the column.

 Date                     Video_full      Instances   

1 Apr 1, 2010 installs/AA.intro_video_1 546
2 Apr 1, 2010 installs/ABAC.intro_video_2 548

I got substring to work;

video_data_2$Video_full <- substring(video_data_2$Video_full,11)

And strsplit also;

strsplit("installs/AA.intro_video_1 ",'[.]')

I'm just not able to figure out how to start the substring in a dynamic position or only keep the second value returned by strsplit.

Thanks for any help you can offer for a simple question.

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