hello Mr. Michael, i have succedded in making the clean files but there are some dates that are like this 01/02/03-10/02/03(notice no spaces inbetween hypen and date) that i am not able to extract dates and months from. But when dates are 01/02/03 - 10/02/03 ( notice the space between date and hypen) that my script is able to read and successfully extract the month and year could you guide me on how to extract cases like this or is it unnecessary for your testing