Whatsapp chat export - formatting to csv

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Moving all of them in the same line

1. In the find tab: click the .* button.
2. In Find, paste:

\r?\n(?![\u200E\u200F]?\[\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{2,4},)

3. Replace with a single space.
4. Replace the weird [U+200E] with space tooo

Getting the CSV After

1. In the find tab: click the .* button.
2. In Find, paste:

^\[([^\]]+)\]\s([^:]+):\s?(.*)$

3. In Replace, paste:

"$1","$2","$3"

4. Run Replace All.

That gives you:

• column 1 = date + time string
• column 2 = name
• column 3 = message

If you want a header first, go to the first line and type:

"date_time","name","message"

Post Steps

note: Excel will not show chars from other languages well! The file we just created does not contain metadata to guide it for using UTF-8...