<![CDATA[Beginning letter replacing]]>Is it possible to replace a beginning letter without changing a whole word?
“L-i don’t know” is a common OCR error, so I need that to be “I-i don’t know”
Problem is, there are names, words like “CARL- Hey”, so I would need an expression to only affect “L-” but not the letters before it.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21195/beginning-letter-replacingRSS for NodeMon, 13 Jul 2026 13:12:12 GMTFri, 21 May 2021 16:49:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 05 Jun 2021 21:11:46 GMT]]>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.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66752https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66752Sat, 05 Jun 2021 21:11:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 22 May 2021 14:57:57 GMT]]>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

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66212https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66212Sat, 22 May 2021 14:57:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 22 May 2021 14:31:18 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66210https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66210Sat, 22 May 2021 14:31:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 22 May 2021 14:04:10 GMT]]>@Alan-Kilborn 4.PNG

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66208https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66208Sat, 22 May 2021 14:04:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 22 May 2021 14:01:29 GMT]]>@Alan-Kilborn i notice that \bl match also if before the word was : or ;
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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66207https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66207Sat, 22 May 2021 14:01:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 22 May 2021 13:54:22 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66206https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66206Sat, 22 May 2021 13:54:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 22 May 2021 13:16:02 GMT]]>Abed- I tried your solution. It does change L- to I- but it also changes CARL- to CARI-

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66205https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66205Sat, 22 May 2021 13:16:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 22 May 2021 12:54:58 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66204https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66204Sat, 22 May 2021 12:54:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Beginning letter replacing on Sat, 22 May 2021 12:27:14 GMT]]>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 -

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66203https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/66203Sat, 22 May 2021 12:27:14 GMT