GREP help - search and replace formatting of a journal entry dates

[jbully0]

Hi -

Trying to figure out a quick way to replace a whole lot of date formats from:

Jan. 6. Text

Feb. 22. Text

June 5. Text

to this format:

Jan 6—Text

Feb 22—Text

June 5—Text

It's always at the beginning of a paragraph if that helps? 

[benprichards]

I'm by no means a GREP expert, but I'll take a shot at it:

Find:

^(\w+).(\s\d{1,2}).\s

Replace:

$1$2—

Did you need the dates bold as well? You could probably do that as a separate GREP character style.

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

Find:  ^((\w+)\.?)(\h\d+)\.\h

Replace by:  $2$3—

Replace by format:  "Italic" char style

Best,

Michel, from FRIdNGE

[jbully0]

You're a GENIUS!!!!!!  Works like a charm. 

[benprichards]

Thanks for that, Michel; good to learn a better way of doing it! (Also, I'd never known of the \h!)

Best,

Ben