Search: ^(\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d)\s\((\d+)\)
Replace:        \1\t\2

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Rod

> On Jun 1, 2022, at 9:40 AM, Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Darren,
> 
> When I run your solution in BBEdit, in the output the numbers that should be 
> in Column 2 are not appearing.
> 
> Howard
> 
> On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 5:24:37 pm UTC-4 Darren Duncan wrote:
> 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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