Question

I hate to ask another “how do you do this with regex” question on here…there seem to be a lot of them. But, I am struggling with this.

I am working in C#, and I need to correct a datetime string before I convert it from a string to a DateTime datatype variable. My string looks like this:

2012-01-24T17-52-08Z

I need to replace the “-” characters that occur after the “T” with colons, so it will look like this:

2012-01-24T17:52:08Z

I have tried to adapt the code from this example but, to no avail. I have been using this wonderful tool to try to get this working.

I know this will be simple to someone who regularly works with RegEx but, I work with it so rarely that I forget most of what I learned before I get a chance to use it again.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Answer 1

Can you try matching with (\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})Z

and replacing with $1:$2:$3Z