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Hi there,

newbee question – sorry !

How can i search all words in a plaintext which begin with an letter in lowercase an change this first letter to uppercase. For example find in the text “house� and change it to “House�?

Thx for any help

Use POSIX regular expression syntax:

Configuration | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax

Then Search | Replace...

Find what: \<([a-z])
Replace with: \u\1

[X] Regular expression

Beam4711 wrote:Joined: 08 Sep 2003
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newbee question

Thats it Thanks for your help

-Beam

Sorry – one more: After changing the first letters of the Words into Uppercase – I’ve got the next question. The Change produces a line (in German) like:

Er-[Linebreak]
Folgt

Now i need to find these occurrences an change it into

Er-[Linebreak]
folgt

Which means that the first letter of the 2nd line is changed lower case.

I search with ([a-z])-\n([A-Z]) this works, but how is the replace with expression?

Find what: ([a-z])-\n([A-Z])
Replace with: \1\n\l\2

You can't put the \n inside the parentheses in the regular expression. This is a restriction in TextPad (but not in WildEdit).

Great help – Great Tool.

I ´ve changed about 17.000 Items in a few seconds. You saved me weekend – Thanks!

- Beam