Changing date format (find/change?)

Hello, I have little bit tricky question.
I have document full of dates:
01.01.2013
02.01.2013
05.01.2013
And i want to change all these dates just to:
01. Mon
02. Tue
05. Fri
Is there a possibility to do that within Indesign? Thank you for your answers.

OrcusDei wrote:
Sandee, you got it exactly right. That's very unfortunate. It's pretty simple data formating and i'm surprised InDesign can't nativly do that O_O
InDesign is not a data formating tool - nor is it a word processor. It's a layout tool for creating print/web ready documentation.
It can do a lot of things - but it can't reformat your data.
I would have done the same as you did - but I would have added a blank character style(create a char style based on None and don't select any options) to the numbers and created an index.
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/index_charstyles.html
Brought that to Excel and converted the text to the way it was supposed.
Then prepare the "FindChangebyList" in the scripts panel.
http://indesignsecrets.com/find-change-scripting-goodness.php

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