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jwes · 11-16-2023, 07:58 PM

I wanted to change chapter numbers to title case, e.g. TWENTY to Twenty or TWENTY-THREE to Twenty-Three. I came up with these patterns
Find:

Code:

([\p{Lu}])([\p{Lu}]+)((-)([\p{Lu}])([\p{Lu}]*))?

Replace:

Code:

\1\L\2\4\5\L\6

It works for TWENTY, but it turns TWENTY-THREE to Twenty-three. As an experiment, I put '|'s in the replace string like this:

Code:

\1|\L\2|\4|\5|\L\6

and I got

Code:

T|wenty|-|t|hree

, so I can see it is being split correctly, but the T in three is being lowercased. Any explanations why?

11-16-2023, 07:58 PM	#1
jwes Connoisseur Posts: 82 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2023 Device: none	Odd regex problem I wanted to change chapter numbers to title case, e.g. TWENTY to Twenty or TWENTY-THREE to Twenty-Three. I came up with these patterns Find: Code: ([\p{Lu}])([\p{Lu}]+)((-)([\p{Lu}])([\p{Lu}]*))? Replace: Code: \1\L\2\4\5\L\6 It works for TWENTY, but it turns TWENTY-THREE to Twenty-three. As an experiment, I put '\|'s in the replace string like this: Code: \1\|\L\2\|\4\|\5\|\L\6 and I got Code: T\|wenty\|-\|t\|hree , so I can see it is being split correctly, but the T in three is being lowercased. Any explanations why?