Problem with converting lowercase to uppercase

[Thomas 2020]

I see good RegEx specialists here,
maybe I can solve the problem here.

I want to replace:
Mckenzie, Mccoy, mcdonalds

on:
McKenzie, McCoy, McDonalds

Find: Mc([a-z])|mc([A-z])
Replace: Mc\u$1$2

I’m using a different editor, and RegEx doesn’t use \u or \l there
and it comes out like this:

Mc￿enzie, Mc￿oy, Mc￿onalds

Can you do it without this “\u”?

[PeterJones]

@Pan-Jan said in Problem with converting lowercase to uppercase:

I’m using a different editor

This forum isn’t a generic regex help site. If you are using a different editor, ask in their forum, or find a regex help site (generic, or specific to the regex engine used by your editor).

[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

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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?