From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-10-28T11:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: convert string format

Hi --

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Xavier Noria wrote:

> On Oct 28, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Junkone wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> I have a date like 20070801 in a string. how do i change it to
>> 2007/08/01 using regex
>
> A solution with unpack:
>
>  irb(main):003:0> "20070801".unpack("a4a2a2").join("/")
>  => "2007/08/01"

And here's one with scanf:

   >> "20070801".scanf("%4s%2s%2s").join('/')
   => "2007/08/01"


David

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