Thank you Kaveh,
It’s an ongoing project, so any improvement would be very welcome.
Andy

On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 at 15:21:50 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:

> I can look again if it helps. is the job done or useful to have these 
> enhancements added too?
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 14:40, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks once again, Kaveh.
>>
>> I tried the search:  \b([A-Z]+)\b
>> and replace: \L\1
>> It left two word spaces before the lowercase word.
>>
>> When I changed the search to:  ([A-Z]+) with word spaces before and 
>> after, it did a great job as long as I used the Replace & Find button, but 
>> it had one or two quirks. For instance, if you had consecutive uppercase 
>> words, it would only find alternate ones.
>> Also, it didn't find capitalised words with commas, full-stops 
>> exclamation marks or question marks. That would be useful.
>> Lastly, it also found the word I (capitalised, of course) which I didn't 
>> want it to.
>>
>> I hope I'm not being too greedy!
>> Thanks so much for your help so far, it's saved me quite a lot of time.
>>
>> On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 at 13:42:14 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>>
>>> Try this:
>>>
>>> search: \b([A-Z]+)\b
>>> replace: \L\1
>>>
>>> case sensitive
>>>
>>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 13:25, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have some text with random uppercase words (for emphasis) and I want 
>>>> BBEdit to find them and replace them with lower case words.
>>>> I ONLY want to change words in which ALL the letters are uppercase - in 
>>>> other words, leave the capital letters at the beginning of sentences and 
>>>> names etc.
>>>>
>>>> As an example, if my sentence is:
>>>> The BIG CAT called George, sat on the DARK BROWN mat.
>>>>
>>>> I would like it to look like this:
>>>> The big cat called George, sat on the dark brown mat.
>>>>
>>>> Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
>>>> Andy
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