From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-10-28T13:12:32+09:00
Subject: Re: convert string format


On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Junkone wrote:

> Hello
> I have a date like 20070801 in a string. how do i change it to
> 2007/08/01 using regex
> thanks
>
>

using regexen for that's suicide unless you want to accept invalid  
time strings.  use the functionality already provided by ruby:

cfp:~ > cat a.rb
require 'time'

puts Time.parse('20070801').strftime('%Y/%m/%d')

puts Time.parse('20070842').strftime('%Y/%m/%d') rescue puts $!.message


cfp:~ > ruby a.rb
2007/08/01
argument out of range


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