Need help with a search and replace

Rellwood · 12-14-2019, 01:05 AM

I have a bunch of tags that are in heriarchal form

genre.romance

I want to turn them into title cased

Genre.Romance

I have tried to search the "." and replace with a space, then capitalize the results, but when I try to replace the spaces with periods, I end up with a bunch of tags with periods in spaces that should just be spaces.

Is there a kind of regular expression that can just capitalize the first letter following a period? I can title case the rest.

theducks · 12-14-2019, 04:26 AM

I title case all my tags, so I just right click in the Tags area of the MDE when I find a book with case issues and Title case. and select the case I wish
AFAIK that works on HIERARCHICAL tags

chaley · 12-14-2019, 10:16 AM

This works for me. It uppercases the first letter and any letter after a period.

Rellwood · 12-20-2019, 08:44 PM

Thanks! I was able to copy the code and it worked fine! I was looking for that specific code

12-14-2019, 01:05 AM	#1
Rellwood Library Breeder (She/Her) Posts: 1,301 Karma: 1937893 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Fullerton, California Device: Paperwhite 2015 (2), PW 2024 (12 GEN), PW 2023 (11 GEN), Scribe (1st)	Need help with a search and replace I have a bunch of tags that are in heriarchal form genre.romance I want to turn them into title cased Genre.Romance I have tried to search the "." and replace with a space, then capitalize the results, but when I try to replace the spaces with periods, I end up with a bunch of tags with periods in spaces that should just be spaces. Is there a kind of regular expression that can just capitalize the first letter following a period? I can title case the rest.

12-14-2019, 10:16 AM	#3
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,525 Karma: 8065948 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	This works for me. It uppercases the first letter and any letter after a period. Attached Thumbnails

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12-14-2019, 04:26 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,270 Karma: 61916422 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I title case all my tags, so I just right click in the Tags area of the MDE when I find a book with case issues and Title case. and select the case I wish AFAIK that works on HIERARCHICAL tags

12-20-2019, 08:44 PM	#4
Rellwood Library Breeder (She/Her) Posts: 1,301 Karma: 1937893 Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Fullerton, California Device: Paperwhite 2015 (2), PW 2024 (12 GEN), PW 2023 (11 GEN), Scribe (1st)	Thanks! I was able to copy the code and it worked fine! I was looking for that specific code

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