This seems to work. It's a little tricky to be sure you're at the start of a sentence so I'd advice cycling through the matches rather than doing a global replace.
Search pattern: (?:^|\. +)[a-z] Replace pattern: \L\0 Use with grep and case sensitive turned on. The search pattern finds either the start of a line ^ or an escaped period followed by one or more spaces, wrapped in (?: ) so they don't define a sub-pattern. Followed by the lowercase character. The replacement uses \U to make the replacement uppercase. And we replace the whole pattern so we don't lose the period. Hope this helps, [fletcher] > On Mar 5, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Linton Hutchinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > How do I > Changing a lower case letter of the first word in a sentence to uppercase > letter of the first word in the sentence for all entries in a txt file > > using GREP? > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: > <https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/125e2ff6-7324-4778-9db9-ed75f11f36df%40googlegroups.com. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/440509A6-AAC4-4F56-B99D-93829D521685%40cumuli.com.
