put capital after a tag

Scott Sumner

@kat75

As is usually the case, supplying some real data would have helped clarify your situation, but I found that if I took this made-up data:

<h1>hello</h1> and <h1>there</h1> or <h1>kat75</h1>

I could change it with a Replace-All action into this:

<h1>Hello</h1> and <h1>There</h1> or <h1>Kat75</h1>

with this replacement:

Find-what: <h1>(.)
Replace-with: <h1>\U\1
Search mode: ☑ Regular expression -AND- ☐ . matches newline

The key part here is obviously the \U (indicating what follows should be converted to uppercase) in the Replace-with.

Pouemes44

thanks scott
it works fine
great thanks

Scott Sumner

More information on these case conversions may be found here in the section on “Boost”.

guy038

Hello, @kat75, @scott-sumner and All

And if you want to normalize the text, between the starting and closing tag <h1>, in order to obtain :

A first capital letter
All the subsequent letters lower-case

Just use the regex, below :

SEARCH (?-s)(?<=<h1>)(.)(.*?)(?=</h1>)

REPLACE \u\1\L\2

For instance, the line :

<h1>sMalL</h1>   <h1>tESt</h1>

would be replaced, as below :

<h1>Small</h1>   <h1>Test</h1>

Remarks :

The replacement \U\1\L\2 could have been used, as well ! In fact, the next global case modifier \L stops the previous case modifier action.
Now, let’s suppose the replacement \u$0 OR \u\1\2 . Then, only the first letter, of the text, would be changed upper-case. Similarly, the \l form changes the following single character lower-case.
For an equivalent regex, using the form \U, you would have needed the regex \U\1\E\2, because the syntax \E, when used in replacement, stops the global case modifiers \L and \U

Cheers,

guy038

Pouemes44

thanks scott and guy

Pouemes44

Hello
i have used with success
Find-what: >(.)
Replace-with: >\U\1
Search mode: ☑ Regular expression -AND- ☐ . matches newline
to put in uppercase all the letters after >

i would now to put in uppercase all the letters after a . and a space

i have read the help but dont succeed
i have tried
Find-what: . (.)
Replace-with: . \U\1
Search mode: ☑ Regular expression -AND- ☐ . matches newline

but not work

guy038

Hi, @pouemes44,

I supposed that it does not work because you forgot to escape the dot regex symbol, in the search part, in order that the regex engine looks for a literal dot character !

So, try this S/R, below :

SEARCH (?-s)\.\x20(.)

REPLACE .\x20\U\1

Click, either, on the Replace or Replace All button

Notes :

You may use, of course, a simple space character, instead of the \x20 syntax !
The (?-s) modifier forces the regex engine to consider that the . matches newline option as to be disabled, even it’s checked, in the Find/Replace dialog !

An other form could be used :

SEARCH (?-s)(?<=\.\x20).

REPLACE \U$0

Notes :

This time, the regex searches a single standard character, ONLY IF it is preceded by a literal dot and a space character ( positive look-behind )
In replacement, the whole regex match ( $0 ), is just rewritten, in uppercase
With that second S/R, you must, exclusively, use the Replace All button, although I don’t understand, clearly, the reason why :-))

Cheers,

guy038

Pouemes44

thanks guy, with your explanations i continue to learn :-)

Pouemes44

hello all
just another question
how to replace in uppercase all more special characters (accent, cyrillic, chinese, hindi etc)
by example é by É, б by Б etc
\U replace in uppercase only common letters
some ideas?
thanks

Star X

Hi,

follow below steps

select all ctrl+A
select TextFx from the top Menu
then select TextFx Characters
then select Proper Case and it will change all first letters of every line to Upper Case

Cheers,