Search replace for title casing

Acme1235

Fellow Notepad++ Users,

Could you please help me the the following search-and-replace problem I am having?

I have some words between an specific xml tagset that I need title cased. Ie first letter of each word uppercased. However, I want to do this through files and the amount of words between the specific tagset differs.

Here is the data I currently have (“before” data):

<tag> one two three </tag>
<tag> one two three four </tag>

Here is how I would like that data to look (“after” data):

<tag> One Two Three </tag>
<tag> One Two Three Four </tag>

I know to do one word for title casing, you can use the expression:

Find What = \<(\w+)
Replace With = \L \u \1
Search Mode = REGULAR EXPRESSION

If it was a specific number of words I would just do capture groups but I’m not sure how to do multiple words at once if the amount of words is changing.

Could i get some help on this please?

Thanks!

PeterJones

@Acme1235 ,

Thanks for following the search-replace-question-template.

We have a generic regex formula for “Replace in a Specific Zone of Text”. You want to do multiple replacements inside the zone of <tag> to </tag>. In the nomenclature of that recipe, BSR would be <tag>, ESR would be </tag>, and your FIND WHAT and REPLACE WITH correspond to the FR and RR from the recipe.

Putting it all together:

FIND WHAT = (?-si:<tag>|(?!\A)\G)(?s-i:(?!</tag>).)*?\K(?-si:\<(\w+))
REPLACE WITH = \L\u\1
Search Mode = REGULAR EXPRESSION

I believe that should work (at least with your simple data

(If the tags actually might have attributes, <tag[^>]*> might be required)

Coises

@Acme1235

I can suggest an “unconventional” way to do this. It requires a plugin, Columns++, which you can install from Plugins | Plugins admin….

With no text selected, from the Columns++ menu, select Search… and enter:

Find what: <tag>\K[^<]++(?=</tag>)
Search mode: Regular expression

in the dialog. Next, click the drop-down arrow at the right end of the Count button and choose Select All from the menu.

Now close the dialog; then, from the main Notepad++ menu, choose Edit | Convert Case to | Proper Case.

Acme1235

Awesome thank yall for the help!