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Old 08-08-2014, 12:12 PM   #375
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Quote:
Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
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Code:
(?![.!?])(?=[ ])([A-Z])[a-z]+
is that working for you in sigil? my PCRE editor doesn't match

i'd probably use something like

find
Code:
(?<![.!?])( [A-Z])(?=[a-z])
replace
Code:
\U\1\E
Quote:
Originally Posted by Leonatus View Post
I want to replace by lower case characters some words that have been written, following the older german grammar, beginning with upper case letters, even when they are in the middle of a sentence, such as "Du", "Dich", "Ihr", "Euch".

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but yes, some examples of exactly want to match would help, it's a little unclear
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