From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2007-10-28T15:00:01+09:00
Subject: Re: convert string format

On Oct 28, 12:12 am, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Good point, but with a format like "20070801", there's a good chance
this is not user input, but serialized data that's already been parsed/
validated and just needs to be formatted.