Howard,
This should be easy to accomplish with search and replace regular expressions.
If both of the things you want to change always appear together such as the
longer format dates plus the counts, then you can change both in a single
expression and you can leave the other lines with the short dates and no numbers
alone, as those would already import correctly, assuming the date column is first.
Search for this grep pattern:
^\s*19(\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)\s+\(\d+\)\s*$
Replace with:
\2/\3/\1\t\4
This pattern is more strict and matches a whole line with optional
leading/trailing whitespace, and it leaves alone dates that don't start with 19
so if it skips any then you know those are a different century; otherwise
replace the 19 with \d\d if you don't care about that.
The result has a tab between the 2 columns which is how in copy/paste Excel
would know the boundaries.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2022-05-31 7:09 a.m., Howard wrote:
Correction to *Sample Output*.
It should look like this:
*Sample Output*
*
*
*Column 1 Column 2*
9/4/57
9/3/57
9/2/57 2
On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 9:54:59 am UTC-4 Howard wrote:
I have a column in Excel with data like this:
9/4/57
9/3/57
1957-09-02 (2)
8/23/57
8/23/57
8/17/57
8/16/57
1957-08-13 (2)
1957-08-13 (2)
1957-08-02 (1)
1957-07-28 (2)
In BBEdit, I would like to extract all the numbers in parentheses -- (1) and
(2) -- and
put them in a second column without the parentheses. Then, I would like to
convert all the dates in Column 1 that are in *yyyy-mm-dd* format to
*mm/dd/yy* format so that I can copy the BBEdit result and paste it into
Excel as two columns (See *Sample Output*).
*Sample Output*
*
*
*Column 1 Column 2*
9/4/57
9/3/57
1957-09-02 2*
*
How can I do this in BBEdit?
Howard
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