Re: [ID] Replace Euro format date text with U.S. format

[William Adams]

On May 20, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Hank wrote:

> I have 1000+ paras in 7 files that begin with a date such as 27 November 1937. I need to change the format for such a date to November 27, 1937. Can anyone help with this?

Pretty straight-forward using GREP.

- open all 7 files
- bring up the find-replace palette
- set it to search all open documents

Find: ^(\d+) (\u\l+) (\d+)
Replace: $2 $1, $3

Tested on your sample text and delimited to the beginning of paragraphs (^) and numbers (\d+) and a cap followed by one or more lowercase letters (\u\l+).

William

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[Andrew Brown]

On 20 mai 2013, at 19:06, Hank <henry....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have 1000+ paras in 7 files that begin with a date such as 27 November 1937. I need to change the format for such a date to November 27, 1937. Can anyone help with this?

That's a very retrograde step, you don't want to take it... the only logical orders for dates are day month year and (better still) year month day. Next I hear you'll be wanting to measure something in pounds and ounces, or ounces and pounds perhaps.

AB

[William Adams]

On May 20, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Hank wrote:

> Thanks so much for the quick response. However (ID6) after pasting in the expression I got a "Cannot find match" message. Any suggestions?

Did you paste it into the GREP tab?