Batch Convert case in multiple open files (maybe regex?)
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So you have to do a Replace in Files to do something like this.
Yes, use regex to replace.with\U$0.
There are other ways to do it, of course, you could do the find on non-uppercase and only convert those matches, for instance.
I’d say to definitely do a backup on all your files first! -
Alan, tested it, worked perfect! Replacing . with \U$0 (in all files) changed all text to UPPER CASE in one step.
Thank you! I’ve macro’d that and will be using it a lot.
Can I ask for a few more syntaxes?
(1) What would be the Regex to change all to lower case? Would it be replace . with \L$0
(2) … To Proper Case?
(3) … To Sentence case?
(4) Can you briefly verbalize what the syntax means here? Just trying to understand it better.
(5) Here’s the better question I should be asking. I can see the WOW factor and all the potential in learning all this REGEX. I want to learn this stuff. Is there a site you’d recommend as a way to get into understanding REGEX that is NOOB-friendly? I’ve done some coding in the past, but never have tackled regex. Any recommedations? Thx! -
(1) Yep,
\L$0
(2) Search for(\w)(\w+)and replace with\U${1}\L${2}(depending up data there may be some limitations)
(3) I don’t think there is going to be a nice equivalent for “sentence case”
(4) Syntax is “match any character” (from the.) and replace the entire match (from the$0) with its uppercase equivalent (from the leading\U)
(5) Great starting info: see the FAQ HERE -
Thanks again! This will save me lots of time (and clicks).
Weird, I’ve been trying to access https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#regular-expressions, but page keeps timing out. Anyone else? Maybe it’s dead. I’ll poke around some of the other pages referenced on the FAQ
Love notepad++ more each day. -
@Chris-Tanguay-0 said in Batch Convert case in multiple open files (maybe regex?):
I’ve been trying to access https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#regular-expressions, but page keeps timing out. Anyone else? Maybe it’s dead. I’ll poke around some of the other pages referenced on the FAQ
Very much alive for me.
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Very much alive for me.
and for me.
@Chris-Tanguay-0 , you might try again – maybe you had a brief network issue. Or maybe you’re using IPv6, which apparently sometimes has issues reaching the online user manual
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Thanks, all. Just figured out why. I’m at work, and our Sophos firewall says site is hosted from Cyprus. Just had to ask our IT people to unblock. Good times!
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@Alan-Kilborn I’m having a strange thing going on. I have maybe 8 text files open at same time, not all that long (they are subtitle srt files). I want them all upper case for text. But, when I try replacing . with \U$0 and I choose REPLACE IN ALL FILES, Notepad+ locks up. I let it sit there for a good 2 minutes thinking it was just taking a long time, but nope, I had to crash out of the program. I wonder why it’s having issues with this.
Any thoughts on this, or… maybe some alternate syntax I can try. I’m running on a fairly robust windows 10 machine, so it’s not processing power…
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They may not be huge, but if you’re doing FIND =
.and REPLACE =\U$0, then it’s trying to upper-case every byte in the file, even on bytes that are not letters or already uppercase. Sometimes, patience is required: even if it’s only 1Mb, that’s still a million attempts to uppercase the character.Also, you might want to restrict it to only work on lowercase letters, like FIND =
[a-z]+and the same replacement. -
@PeterJones That (and as you said, a little patience) worked. The [a-z]+ cuts the time in half.
Thanks!
