Replace should be \U\0 of course. \L makes it lowercase. \U makes it uppercase.
[fletcher] > On Mar 5, 2020, at 6:11 PM, Fletcher Sandbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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/3159614F-A0BA-4D22-BB6B-EEF182160789%40cumuli.com.
