From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-06-11T09:21:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex help

Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> Say that I have a string like this:
> 
> "SPT_051205.jpg"
> 
> How could I strip out the numbers that stand for the date and convert  
> it to look like this:
> 
> "May 12 2005"
> 

"SPT_051205.jpg".scan(/(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)/) do |a|
  puts Time.mktime(a[2].to_i + 2000, a[0].to_i, a[1].to_i).strftime("%b %d %Y")
end

Enjoy,
        nikolai

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