Convert a char to upper case using regular expressions EditPad Pro

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I wrote a regular expression in hope that I will be able to replace every match  that is just one char  to upper case char  I am using EditPad Pro  however I am willing to use any other tool that would allow me to do this  as long as it is free to try  since I only need to do this once    Background  I have a very long text file used by a case sensitive application  and some words start with lower case instead of upper case char  thus crashing the application  This would take very long to do by hand  and it would be quite complicated to do without regular expressions because the occurrence of the  evil  lower case char is very specific   I have written the select regular expression and now I can use it with a backreference   1 works just fine  however I can t make it replace with upper case char  I thought something like  u 1 would work  however it doesn t in EditPad Pro   If no free tool allows me to do this  I guess the alternative would be to just do it in C  however I am in a bit of a hurry and not near a compiler  so I d have to download the express edition first  so     It would be preferable to find a tool that supports such a feature   Thank you

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You can do this in jEdit  by using the  Return value of a BeanShell snippet  option in jEdit s find and replace dialog  Just search for    a-z   and replace it by    0 toUpperCase     without quotes

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EditPad Pro and PowerGREP have a   unique feature that allows you to   change the case of the backreference     U1 inserts the first backreference   in uppercase   L1 in lowercase and    F1 with the first character in   uppercase and the remainder in   lowercase  Finally   I1 inserts it   with the first letter of each word   capitalized  and the other letters in   lowercase    Source  Goyvaerts  Jan  2006   Regular Expressions  The Complete Tutorial  Lulu com  p  35  ISBN 1411677609  Google Books  Retrieved on June 25  2010

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I know this thread is about EditPad Pro  but I came here because I had the same need with a javascript regexp   For the people who are here needing the same tip  you can use a function or lambda as the replace argument     I use the function below to convert css names with - to the javascript equivalent  for example   border-top  will be transformed into  borderTop        s   s replace   - a-z  g  x   gt  x 1  toUpperCase

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You can also capitalize the first letter of the match using  I1 and  I2 etc instead of  1 and  2

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TextPad will allow you to perform this operation   example   test this sentence   Find what                   Replace with   U 1 E  2  the  U will cause all following chars to be upper  the  E will turn off the  U  the result will be   TEST this sentence

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Just an another ussage example for Notepad    regular expression search mode   Find   g c u d  et reate pdate elete         s      Replace   U 1 E 2 U 3 E 4   Example   get user - gt  GetUser create user - gt  CreateUser update user - gt  UpdateUser delete user - gt  DeleteUser

[regex] Convert a char to upper case using regular expressions (EditPad Pro)

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