Question

I am trying to capture a conditional of years in RegEx. Basically, if they implement just a two digit year, I want to make it a four digit year. So if they put :

1/2/08

I want to make it :

1/2/2008

Any ideas?

Answer 1

One [pretty nasty] way using regex:

"1/2/08".sub! /\/(\d{2})$/, '/20\1'

Wouldn’t it be better to just parse the string into a date object, though? Then you can treat it as a date properly! 🙂