Help with Regex - find groups of words in uppercase

Hoods7070 · 06-10-2013, 10:28 PM

I want to be able to find groups of text all in uppercase (and any punctuation etc. in those groups) in my books then span the groups with a style. e.g. Find THE CAT SAT, ON THE-MAT, Replace same string with a span of Style tags around it.

I can easily single uppercase words, but I have no idea how to extend that search to include more than one word. Any help with that, and the code for the Replace would be greatly appreciated.

theducks · 06-10-2013, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoods7070

I want to be able to find groups of text all in uppercase (and any punctuation etc. in those groups) in my books then span the groups with a style. e.g. Find THE CAT SAT, ON THE-MAT, Replace same string with a span of Style tags around it.

I can easily single uppercase words, but I have no idea how to extend that search to include more than one word. Any help with that, and the code for the Replace would be greatly appreciated.

I used this search for an all CAPs new scene detect

Code:

<p>(.([A-Z]| ){4,10})

your search wants to detect a minimum count of CAPS (say {3,} ), followed by a space, repeated at least {4,} times
the trailing comma in the range says or more if you don't want a finite cap.

Hoods7070 · 06-11-2013, 07:02 AM

Thanks, Ducks, that works to a degree, minus the <p> tag. I removed the <p> tag and added a space before ( .([A-Z) and that works well enough to find groups. Unfortunately it also finds single words all in uppercase (e.g. the all caps stuff in the !DOCTYPE codes at the top of each page) but I can live with that.

Cheers

theducks · 06-11-2013, 08:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hoods7070

Thanks, Ducks, that works to a degree, minus the <p> tag. I removed the <p> tag and added a space before ( .([A-Z) and that works well enough to find groups. Unfortunately it also finds single words all in uppercase (e.g. the all caps stuff in the !DOCTYPE codes at the top of each page) but I can live with that.

Cheers

That is why the <p was there

(it did need some fine tuning to closer match your usage style) These are kickstart tips, not absolutes, you are expected to season to taste

Code:

<p.*>(.([A-Z]| ){4,10})

might work better IF you code uses P and not DIV <--see! Why season to taste is needed

06-10-2013, 10:28 PM	#1
Hoods7070 Groupie Posts: 159 Karma: 24430 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Australia Device: Nexus 7"	Help with Regex - find groups of words in uppercase I want to be able to find groups of text all in uppercase (and any punctuation etc. in those groups) in my books then span the groups with a style. e.g. Find THE CAT SAT, ON THE-MAT, Replace same string with a span of Style tags around it. I can easily single uppercase words, but I have no idea how to extend that search to include more than one word. Any help with that, and the code for the Replace would be greatly appreciated.

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06-11-2013, 07:02 AM	#3
Hoods7070 Groupie Posts: 159 Karma: 24430 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Australia Device: Nexus 7"	Thanks, Ducks, that works to a degree, minus the <p> tag. I removed the <p> tag and added a space before ( .([A-Z) and that works well enough to find groups. Unfortunately it also finds single words all in uppercase (e.g. the all caps stuff in the !DOCTYPE codes at the top of each page) but I can live with that. Cheers

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