Let's describe the pattern you are trying to split. There's more than one 
way to do that (as the replies to you query show) but by focusing on a 
general pattern (what must always be true about your original text), we can 
make a more reliable regexp.

You want to capture everything up to the first space -- ^(.+?)/s -- 
followed by just about anything (.+?)/s until you see a string of numbers 
including a period ([\d.]+?)$ at the end of the line.

So try: ^(.+?)\s(.+?)\s([\d.]+?)$

In BBEdit, you can put that in the Find dialog with \1\n\2\n\3\n\n in the 
replace to make the three groups clear (substitute \t for the first \n for 
tabs).

On Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 3:05:25 PM UTC-8 Kim Mosley wrote:

I want to add tabs (or something else that might be better) so that I can 
have three columns… date, vendor with city, and price.

Can someone help?

Thanks!

01/03/23 CENTRAL MARKET 61 AUSTIN, TX 45.00
01/04/23 H-E-B 425 AUSTIN, TX 74.62
01/09/23 CENTRAL MARKET 61 AUSTIN, TX 43.70
01/10/23 WHOLEFDS LMR 10145 AUSTIN, TX 62.25
01/13/23 SQ *ASAHI IMPORTS Austin, TX 24.46
01/14/23 CENTRAL MARKET 61 AUSTIN, TX 29.22
01/17/23 CENTRAL MARKET 61 AUSTIN, TX 28.25
01/18/23 CENTRAL MARKET 61 AUSTIN, TX 19.34
01/21/23 CENTRAL MARKET 61 AUSTIN, TX 1.83
01/21/23 CENTRAL MARKET 61 AUSTIN, TX 18.34
01/23/23 CENTRAL MARKET 61 AUSTIN, TX 19.85

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