# splitting long numbers
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-long-numbers/9197
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [October 24, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-long-numbers/9197 "2009-10-24T12:59:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jazzcat82](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jazzcat82)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-long-numbers/9197/1 "2009-10-24T12:59:09Z")
I have files that have sets of numbers that I want to seperate with spaces or dashes.
Example: 550424
55 is the year
04 is the month
24 is the day
So I would like the result to be 55 04-24
I am thinking RegEx would work but I have no idea on how to do it.
if it was 55-04-24 it would be simple:)
Thanx ahead of time!!!
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-long-numbers/9197/2 "2009-10-24T13:52:24Z")
Yes, regular expressions can do that 🙂
_Action type:_ **Replace with regular expression**
_Field:_ **Type in the field here**
_Regular expression:_ **(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})**
_Replace matches with:_ **$1 $2-$3**
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### Author:  [@jazzcat82](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jazzcat82)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/splitting-long-numbers/9197/3 "2009-10-29T02:26:52Z")
Wow!!! Simply Amazing!! It works great! Thank-you soooo much! and congrats on winning gold!!