Upper Value of Equation's Sample

The current output of my existing equation when accessing its sample data member, eq_01.@smpl is this:

09-12-2016 02/24/2017

I have also stored it in a string vector:

Code:
svector eq_date = eq_01.@smpl

What I would like to do is only store the upper value of the date sample, i.e. 02/24/2017. Can anything be brought to bear here?

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