Problem with converting lowercase to uppercase

guy038

Hello, @pan-jan and All,

Try this regex S/R :

SEARCH (?i)\bMc([[:alpha:]])

REPLACE Mc\u$1

which changes any form, as below :

mcDonalds
McDonalds
mCDonalds
MCDonalds
mcdonalds
Mcdonalds
mCdonalds
MCdonalds

with the unique good syntax :

McDonalds

Notes :

The (?i) in-line modifier carries the search in an insensitive way
The [[:alpha:]] POSIX class range represents any single uppercase or lowercase letter
In replacement, the \u syntax rewrites the next letter, stored in group 1, in uppercase

BR

guy038

Thomas 2020

@guy038 said in Problem with converting lowercase to uppercase:

the \u syntax

just the

\u

syntax doesn’t work

guy038

Hello @pan-jan and All,

I’m really sorry but the regex syntax \u, in replacement, does do the job ! That is to say it capitalizes the first letter of the following string or group !

For instance :

SEARCH (?-i)foo

REPLACE \ubar

changes the word foo, with this exact case, by Bar

And :

SEARCH (?-i)(foo|bar)

REPLACE \u$1

would change the words foo and bar , with this exact case, by the words Foo and Bar

Best Regards,

guy038

Ekopalypse

@guy038

maybe you missed @PeterJones comment and OPs info?

I’m using a different editor, and RegEx doesn’t use \u or \l there

guy038

Hi @ekopalyse,

Ah… OK. So, what’s he waiting for to switch to Notepad++ ;-)))

BR

guy038

Thomas 2020

@guy038 said in Problem with converting lowercase to uppercase:

So, what’s he waiting for to switch to Notepad++

Thank you but…
AkelPad is much better than Notepad ++.

guy038

Hi, @pan-jan,

If so, why don’t you join the Akelpad community and find out a solution, from within this software, or, may be, ask the Akelpad’s author to improve the regex engine ?

BR

guy038

Thomas 2020

I asked before.
No response means nothing can be done.

I see there are some good RegEx specialists here
and I’m trying to solve the problem here.

mkupper

Implementation of regex varies from one application to the next.

It’s a guess based on the OP’s results but it seems that \u in the OP’s editor is the lead-in for Unicode related stuff such as \u0025 for a percent (%) sign. The OP’s examples have \xFFFF characters in them.

Fiddling with people’s names seems dangerous as there are people who have Mc… style surnames where the third character is not upper-case. If there is a requirement to make the names a consistent case then convert everything to upper case.

I think we are in https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15958/faq-desk-you-ve-asked-your-question-in-the-wrong-place territory.

Thomas 2020

@mkupper said in Problem with converting lowercase to uppercase:

as there are people who have Mc… style surnames where the third character is not upper-case

e.g?