Brian Adkins wrote:
> On Oct 27, 11:21 pm, 7stud -- <bbxx789_0... / yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On my system sprintf() is twice as fast as unpack(), which is twice as
>> fast as match().
> 
> Yes, but fast and incorrect is a bad combination. :)

No wonder it was so much faster than this one:

str = '20070801'
new_str = sprintf("%s/%s/%s", str[0..3], str[4..5], str[6..7])


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