Find and replace with reordered date format in notepad++

Question

I have a file with a few thousand rows to be added to a MySQL database. There are date values in the rows which are in the dd-mm-yyyy format but I need them to be in the yyyy-mm

Answer 1

You can do this with Textpad:

Find: ([0-9]+)-+([0-9]+)-+([0-9]+)

Replace: \3-\2-\1