You can adjust the minimum length by changing the + to {2,} which will match
strings of 2 or more capital letters.
Find: (?-i)(?<=\b)([A-Z]{2,})(?=\b)
Replace: \L\1
[fletcher]
> On Jun 13, 2023, at 10:00 AM, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk
> <bbedit@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you Fletcher - that's a big improvement!
> It will help me a lot.
> Is there a way to avoid it finding single capitals - like "I" (capital i) or
> "A"?
> Andy
> On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 at 17:45:02 UTC+1 Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:
>> You could try modifying it like this. Changing \b to (?<=\b) makes it so the
>> match starts at a word boundary but does not include the word boundary in
>> the match. With the corresponding change to (?=\b) at the end of the pattern
>> this prevents the spaces being part of the match so should prevent the
>> alternating behavior.
>>
>> And then (?-i) tells it to be case sensitive so you don't need to worry
>> about the dialog setting.
>>
>> Find: (?-i)(?<=\b)([A-Z]+)(?=\b)
>> Replace: \L\1
>>
>> [fletcher]
>>
>>> On Jun 13, 2023, at 9:33 AM, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk
>>> <bbe...@googlegroups.com <>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>> <bbe...@googlegroups.com <>> 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
>>>>>> <bbe...@googlegroups.com <>> 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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