EasyPatterns are a revolutionary new way to describe text patterns, in a way that is easy to understand and use, and with plenty of power under the hood. EasyPatterns make parsing a US phone number as easy as [ PhoneNumber ] or if you prefer the long way: [ optional punctuation, 3 digits, punctuation, 3 digits, punctuation, 4 digits ] Once found it's easy to re-arrange it or reformat it. Using this pattern: [ optional punctuation, capture(3 digits), punctuation, capture(3 digits), punctuation, capture(4 digits) ] ...we could re-arrange phone numbers like this: $1.$2.$3 ($1) $2-$3 +1.$1.$2.$3 How easy is that! You can easily control the quantity of text you match, and include literal text like this: [ 1 or more digits, '.', 2 digits ] $[ 2+ digits, '.', 2 digits ] USD [ 3 to 6 digits ].00 You can easily match dates like this: [ Day <-/ > Month <-/ > Year ] [ Month <-/ > Day <-/ > Year ] [ Year <-/ > Month <-/ > Day ] ('Month' matches numbers 1-12, and short and long month names) EasyPatterns are included in TextPipe Pro - the world's fastest multi-search and replace tool.