Beginning letter replacing

[Abed99]

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 -

[Alan Kilborn]

@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.

[kracovwolf]

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

[Abed99]

@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

[Abed99]

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

[Abed99]

@Alan-Kilborn

[Alan Kilborn]

@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.

[kracovwolf]

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[kracovwolf]

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

[kracovwolf]

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.