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Old 02-22-2011, 02:52 PM   #1
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Question lower case to capital via regex

hi,
does anybody know, how i can change lower case to capital.
(i mean whole words)
via
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Old 02-23-2011, 03:30 AM   #2
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Question coming closer

....while browsing through the regex references i found the search string:

([a-zA-Z])*-

using the hyphen or any other (i.e. space) as the delimiter.

BUT how to replace?

please help!
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Old 02-23-2011, 04:01 AM   #3
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I'm pretty sure you cant batch replace with capitals.

Depending on how many need capitalizing, you've got two options.

Loop through each lowercase letter and replace with it's capital
Search 'a' -> Replace 'A'
Search 'b' -> Replace 'B'
etc. (match case)

Or
Copy all the text into a text editor of your choice, select a section that you want capitalized and in menus/toolbar 'Change to UPPERCASE'.
(Will only work if your editor has that ability)

Depending on how much you want changed and a couple of other factors, the Search/Replace will probably be easier, if not monotonous.
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Old 02-23-2011, 05:10 AM   #4
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css syntax has something called text-transform but I've not messed with it
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_text-transform.asp
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Question in general: is there a way to capitalize (+visversa) with regex?

thanks so far.
but i'm definitly searching for a REGEX solution.
not just for SIGILs find/replace, also for other engines/progs with replace option.
so, in general: is there a way to capitalize (+visversa) with regex?

as i said: ([a-zA-Z])*-
will find whole words ending with a choosen delimiter.
i need the syntax for the replace field.

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css syntax has something called text-transform but I've not messed with it
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_text-transform.asp
And it's not in the ePUB-supported subset.
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Old 02-23-2011, 09:04 AM   #7
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You can't replace with uppercased-match with regex.
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I think the answer is is Python

I assume you guys are talking about the regex search and replace while doing a conversion.

I am hitting the same problem - except in my case I am matching on text which is in bold, and I want to make it upper case.

If this Search/Replace is based on Python, why can't we use the Python function:

string.upper()

in my case it would be (\1).upper(), since \1 is the match group from my regex.

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Old 03-18-2012, 04:51 PM   #9
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A little over a year later but... with PCRE (that Sigil uses) anyway...

Find: \b(word)\b
Replace with: \U\1\E

Turns "word" into "WORD"

Find: \b(word)\b
Replace with: \u\1

Turns "word" into "Word"

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Old 03-18-2012, 05:55 PM   #10
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@DiapDealer Nice, but can you also change upper to lower case

e.g Chapter ONE -> Chapter One

If it's lower to upper as wanted in topic we can do
Chapter one -> Chapter One

Search
Code:
(Chapter )(.+?\b)
Replace
Code:
\1\u\2
So what would the replace be for this if possible?
Code:
Chapter ONE
Desired result would be
Code:
Chapter One
(I'd expect same or similar search as above)

EDIT:
Found a solution.

Search
Code:
(Chapter )(.)(.+?\b)
Replace
Code:
\1\u\2\L\3\E

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I see you already discovered a solution while I was typing, so I modified it so it will detect and fix Chapter TWENty-oNE as well.

Code:
(Chapter )(\w)(.+?\b)
Replace:

Code:
\1\u\2\L\3\E
But that won't help when you get as high as "Chapter TWENTY-ONE," soooo.....

Code:
(Chapter )(\w)(.+?\b)((-)(\w)(.+?\b))?
Replace:

Code:
\1\u\2\L\3\E\5\u\6\L\7\E
Should straighten up any capitalization issues of the part that follows "Chapter ", as long as it maintains a standard "word" or "word-word" convention)

"Chapter ONe" will become "Chapter One" and "Chapter THIRTY-two" will become "Chapter Thirty-Two"

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Great, that also gives everyone a rough idea of how to adapt either version for other uses.

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Great, that also gives everyone a rough idea of how to adapt either version for other uses.
Just in case it's unclear for any following along:

\u Uppercase the next character
\l Lowercase next character
\U Uppercase until \E
\L Lowercase until \E
\E End case modification

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