changing word order ?
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:44 am
Dear People -
if this can be answered very quickly - I am working on this at the moment and as is my habit I will keep trying until something works . ( First , I have used AFR for years and have found it to be marvellous - very fast and very stable - my highest compliments to you ) .
I presume this can be done with regexes , about which I am clueless and apparently totally devoid of talent so if any response could be as thorough as possible this would be good .
What I am basically trying to do is change the order of fields in a text file , the date . The form is 1488.09.31. ( year/month/day with a closing period ) to 31.09.1488 ( day/month/year : also removing the first period : eventually I would like 31 Sept. 1488 , but a simple batch replace will replace the month , I need no help with that ) . There are also a few fields of the format 1488/89.09.31. , 1488-89.09.31. and a few 1488.09. ( with just the month ) . Thank you in advance for any consideration .
csb
if this can be answered very quickly - I am working on this at the moment and as is my habit I will keep trying until something works . ( First , I have used AFR for years and have found it to be marvellous - very fast and very stable - my highest compliments to you ) .
I presume this can be done with regexes , about which I am clueless and apparently totally devoid of talent so if any response could be as thorough as possible this would be good .
What I am basically trying to do is change the order of fields in a text file , the date . The form is 1488.09.31. ( year/month/day with a closing period ) to 31.09.1488 ( day/month/year : also removing the first period : eventually I would like 31 Sept. 1488 , but a simple batch replace will replace the month , I need no help with that ) . There are also a few fields of the format 1488/89.09.31. , 1488-89.09.31. and a few 1488.09. ( with just the month ) . Thank you in advance for any consideration .
csb