lower case to capital via regex
 

hi,
does anybody know, how i can change lower case to capital.
(i mean whole words)
via
regex.

:bulb2:

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!

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.

css syntax has something called text-transform but I've not messed with it
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_text-transform.asp

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.

And it's not in the ePUB-supported subset.

You can't replace with uppercased-match with regex.

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.

Thanks,
Goran

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"

@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
Replace
So what would the replace be for this if possible?
Desired result would be
(I'd expect same or similar search as above)

EDIT:
Found a solution.

Search
Replace

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. :D

Replace:

But that won't help when you get as high as "Chapter TWENTY-ONE," soooo.....

Replace:

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" :D

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

Thanks.

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