Find/Change (Multiple Date Changes in one Find)

Hi ID geniuses, got a question for your gigantic brains.
This may or may not be an easy one...
I do a lot of production work and I'd like to create a Find/Change or even a GREP search that will allow me to change multiple blank dates at once).
the format changes from file to file and follows these 4 formats usually and all 4 formats could be used in one document.
XX/XX/XX (8 characters)
XX/XX/10 (8 characters)
XX/XX/2010 (10 characters)
9/26/10 - wrong date in place already. (6 – 8 characters depending on the month)
Instead of having 4 different searches, is it possible to do one search that look for any of these text formats and change them at once?
Any ideas/guidance will be appreciated.
Thanks for your time.

Piece of cake.
Of course GREP comes to the rescue. Enter this in your search field:
\b((XX|\d{1,2})/){2}(XX|\d{2,4})\b
and it'll find any of your examples. Wot Doth This All Mean?
\b     a Word break -- there must not be a word character before this entire expression. This means it'll ignore "XXX/XX/XX".
(     repeat group -- see below
( XX | \d{1,2} )     Either "XX" (exactly) or "a digit, 1 or 2". This means it'll ignore "XXX/XX/XX" (three exes), pick up "1/2/3" (one digit), ignore "123/123/123" (three digits)
/     A slash. Nothing special, except ...
)     .. since this is the end of the repeat group ...
{2}     ... we want twice the sequence "XX/" (or "digit/"), to match "XX/XX/" and every possible combo with digits as well.
(     oh yet another group. That's because ...
XX     .. this literal text ...
|     ... OR ... (hold on, I'm gettin' there)
\d{2,4}     .. two to four digits should be matched ..
)     .. in this entire group.
\b     Phew! A Word break to prevent it matching "12/34/56789"

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