*(?i)* in the string will render it case-insensitive, as will unchecking *Case sensitive* at the bottom of the BBEdit Find/Replace dialog.
On Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 1:14:26 PM UTC-8 Brian Forte wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:38:07 -0600, Jim Straus wrote: > > I'm looking to change a word in my code to another one, but it is > > sometimes "Word", "word" or "WORD". I can do this with three search and > > replaces. I also know about the \u\U modifications to the group (so \u\1 > > to uppercase the first letter), but that doesn't really work, since I'm > > changing the word (not using the group). What I think I want is something > > that would take just the case of the matched group and apply that to > > replacement text. Or is there another way to accomplish this in one > > pattern? > > The below is simplistic and almost brute-force, but it appears to work. > > I’m assuming ‘word’ is representative. That is, I’m assuming you are > searching for a specific string of letters where the only potential > difference between each example string is the letter case. > > Then > > Search for: [W|w][O|o][R|r][D|d] > Replace with: <whatever spelling case for the ‘word’ string you want> > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Brian Forte. > -- > Brian Forte > <[email protected]> -- 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/48a8df4d-9c08-476f-9879-997254829881n%40googlegroups.com.
