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    • Abed99A Offline
      Abed99
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      find : (?<=[\s(\r\n)])[lL]
      replace with what you want
      search mode : regular expression
      this will find any l capital or small in the beginning of any word

      find : (?<=[\s(\r\n)])(l-)|(L-)
      replace with what you want
      search mode : regular expression
      this will find any l capital or small that follow by -

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      • Alan KilbornA Offline
        Alan Kilborn @Abed99
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        @Abed99

        Why not just find on \bL ?

        I hesitated to reply earlier to the OP because from the problem description I wasn’t quite sure what exactly was being asked for.

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        • kracovwolfK Offline
          kracovwolf
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          Abed- I tried your solution. It does change L- to I- but it also changes CARL- to CARI-

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          • Abed99A Offline
            Abed99 @kracovwolf
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            @kracovwolf can you describe your problem with more details?
            so you want to change L- to I- in beginning only ? if so use the first regex it works only if the L in the beginning

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              Abed99 @Alan Kilborn
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              @Alan-Kilborn i notice that \bl match also if before the word was : or ;
              2.PNG

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                Abed99 @Alan Kilborn
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                @Alan-Kilborn 4.PNG

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                • Alan KilbornA Offline
                  Alan Kilborn @Abed99
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                  @Abed99 said in Beginning letter replacing:

                  i notice that \bl match also if before the word was : or ;

                  Yea, well, same old problem here, happens time and time again…
                  People don’t know enough (to ask their question correctly) about the information required to derive the proper answer.

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                  • kracovwolfK Offline
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                    • kracovwolfK Offline
                      kracovwolf
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                      Yes I mean the first letter of the whole line. Your first expression doesn’t seem to work

                      \bl is the one that works, thanks

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                      • kracovwolfK Offline
                        kracovwolf
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                        I tried tweaking this since I found ones that begin with “L…”, so I tried \bL… but I didn’t realize that the periods act as wildcards so they changed all characters to periods. It changed “Well I can” to “Wel… I can” so obviously my tweak isn’t any good. If anyone has a solution let me know.

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