From: SpringFlowers AutumnMoon <summercoolness@...>
Date: 2007-09-23T23:05:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Questions about Date.strptime

SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:> a = "20070923"
> 
> if match = /^(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2}$)/.match(a)
>   a.replace(match[1..3].join("/"))
>   puts a
> end

oops, or it can be

>>  a = "20070923"
=> "20070923"

>>  a.sub!(/^(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})$/, '\1/\2/\3')
=> "2007/09/23"

and then use Date.strptime

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