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The new date matching feature in 3.1 is great. I'm on a holy crusade to eliminate multiple custom AppleScripts, and it looks like that will help greatly.

That said, is there a mechanism in the feature to match an instance of the date later in the document? For example, I have credit card statements where the first date instance is the due date, whereas I file based on statement date, which is the second (or sometimes third) date instance.

Thanks!

You could try matching it together with some other word in your text

e.g.
...
due date: 2013-08-30
...
invoice date: 2013-06-24
...

then match for something like "invoice date: yyyy-mm-dd"

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm trying to do that in documents where it's clearly delineated (it leads to more accuracy in date selection, overall), however I have several bills that put the due/statement dates in columns and boxes by themselves with no accompanying text. I can deal with this pretty easily with shell scripts, but am trying to get away from having to write (modify) a shell script to cope with each bill type.

Try running the file through 'mdimport -d2' to see the output text. There you can get more of a sense of whether the text which is one the same line visually is actually that way in the text stream.

I see that you added date occurance to 3.1.2. Thank you very much!