Thanks to both *Kaveh*, and *Fletcher* for their replies.
The following works near-perfectly for me:
(?-i)(?<=\b)([A-Z]{2,})(?=\b)
It's safely saved for future use/reference too! Thanks again!
Andy
On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 at 19:07:22 UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> So any single cap letter leave as is? will that work? What will help is if
> you give a few examples, or put all the words that did not work so I can
> test it.
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 17:32, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Kaveh,
>> It’s an ongoing project, so if you can improve it, that would be very
>> useful.
>> Best wishes,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On 13 Jun 2023, at 15:21, Kaveh Bazargan <[email protected]> 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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