Here's something to try. I only tested it on a couple test cases.

Regex find: >([^<]*)<

Replace with: >\L\1<

-Kendall

On May 22, 3:36 am, ChristianBoyce <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would have been easier to help me if I'd stated the problem more
> accurately.
>
> I am going to have some text that is HTML tags and other text that is
> not. I simply want to skip over the stuff that is HTML tags. Sounds
> easy-- if it's inside of angle brackets, don't change it.
>
> Example:
>
> <A HREF="http://www.drseuss.com/THE-CAT-IN-THE-HAT.png";>THE-CAT-IN-THE-
> HAT</A> becomes
> <A HREF="http://www.drseuss.com/THE-CAT-IN-THE-HAT.png";>the-cat-in-the-
> hat</A>
>
> The problem is, I can't figure out how to say "if it's in angle
> brackets, don't change it." There is no telling what will be inside
> those brackets.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> c
>
> On May 21, 11:40 pm, Maarten Sneep <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Op 22 mei 2011 om 05:14 heeft ChristianBoyce <[email protected]> 
> > het volgende geschreven:
>
> > > But, if I have something like this:
>
> > > "IT WAS A LOW-BUDGET AFFAIR and their WEBSITE ADDRESS 
> > > washttp://www.LOW-BUDGET.com";
> > > I don't want to change the URL. Basically, I want to leave URLs
> > > untouched. It should look like this: "it was a low-budget affair and
> > > their website address washttp://www.LOW-BUDGET.com";. (I want to do it
> > > all in one move-- select the entire chunk of text, apply the GREP
> > > command.)
>
> > > I am using GREP rather than just changing case in BBEdit because I
> > > want to protect the URLs. A given chunk of text will be a mixture of
> > > upper case text, lower case text, and URLS. I'm trying to select a
> > > bunch of text, apply my GREP command, and do a "change case" that
> > > ignores URLs.
>
> > Rightly so, urls are care insensitive. Why bother keeping the original case 
> > for exactly that part?
>
> > Maarten

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