On 10/28/07, Junkone <junkone1 / gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > I have a date like 20070801 in a string. how do i change it to > 2007/08/01 using regex > thanks irb(main):008:0> '20070801'.sub( /(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/ ) { [ $1, $2, $3 ].join( '/' ) } => "2007/08/01" OR: irb(main):010:0> '20070801'.sub( /(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})/, '\1/\2/\3') => "2007/08/01" -Tom