Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Hello Everyone! Thanks to your recommendations and help, I am now able to replace all lower case letters at the beginning of lines AND remove spaces at the beginning of lines! Your help will save me a tremendous amount of time and tedium each week! "15 minutes invested one time (researching th

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

You replace the ^ + with ^\s+ which would handle both spaces and tabs if there… ;) Wags ;) WagsWorld Hebrews 4:15 Ph(primary) : 408-914-1341 Ph(secondary): 408-761-7391 On Oct 29, 2021, 04:03 -0700, Satomi Yoneki , wrote: > > > I meant the number of the line, as in the numbers in the left hand co

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

I meant the number of the line, as in the numbers in the left hand column. Those numbers are Line Numbers. The lines typically look like this: "so, it was" Or, " so, it was"  Which is something else I'd like to have a Grep for: removing spaces at the beginning of all lines. Please t

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

If you open up the Find/Replace and use this grep in the find box: ^(\w) and this replacement in the Replace box: \U\1\E and then you can do Replace All If you want to include the start of sentences that may have spaces in front of them (like the classic indent for a paragraph), you can use:

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Hey Chris, I meant the number of the line, as in the numbers in the left hand column. The lines typically look like this: "so, it was" Or, " so, it was" Which is something else I'd like to have a Grep for: removing spaces at the beginning of all lines. My apologies for the misundersta

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

> On Oct 28, 2021, at 22:28, Nosadge > wrote: > > I'm defining lines as anything with a number infant of it. I'm new to this > editor, and use it to edit transcripts, so my jargon will probably be > incorrect. Hey Nosadge, Did you mean a number in front of the lin

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Yep, found that out the hard way before posting my question here! :-D Thanks for your reply, Tom! On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 9:15:11 PM UTC-5 Tom Robinson wrote: > > > On 2021-10-29, at 14:15, Satomi Yoneki wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know a command/script/grep to make sure the first let

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Hey Fletcher, Thanks so much! I'll give that a shot tomorrow on my next project. Thank you for the detailed explanation. On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 7:48:11 PM UTC-5 fletc...@cumuli.com wrote: > Find "^(.)" and replace with "\U\1". Make sure Grep is checked in the > find/replace dialog.

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Thank you, Satomi! Yep, I tried that before posting my question here. Like Tom said, it changed all my upper case sentences to lower case! :-0 On Thursday, October 28, 2021 at 8:27:30 PM UTC-5 satomi...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Nosadge, > > > Does anyone know a command/script/grep to make sure

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Hey Chris! I'm defining lines as anything with a number infant of it. I'm new to this editor, and use it to edit transcripts, so my jargon will probably be incorrect. I'm going to try Fletcher's suggestion on my next project. Thanks for your input, and for guiding me to the right place in the

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

> On Oct 28, 2021, at 17:10, Nosadge wrote: > > Does anyone know a command/script/grep to make sure the first letter of every > line is capitalized? Hey There, How are you defining lines? Line one. Line two. ... In that case Fletcher's regex works fine, although you might prefer to run it f

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Have you tried Text > Change Case > Capitalize Lines ? That also converts any remaining uppercase in the line to lowercase. Yes.  The usage of this command is limited, but it works for a certain case. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

> On 2021-10-29, at 14:15, Satomi Yoneki wrote: > >> Does anyone know a command/script/grep to make sure the first letter of >> every line is capitalized? > > Have you tried Text > Change Case > Capitalize Lines ? That also converts any remaining uppercase in the line to lowercase. -- This

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Hello Nosadge, Does anyone know a command/script/grep to make sure the first letter of every line is capitalized? Have you tried Text > Change Case > Capitalize Lines ? Regards, Satomi -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical suppor

Re: Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Find "^(.)" and replace with "\U\1". Make sure Grep is checked in the find/replace dialog. The ^ matches the start of a line so the . matches the first character, surrounded by parentheses so we can refer to it in the replacement pattern. The replacement uses \U to make it uppercase. [fletcher]

Need easy way to make first letter of each line upper case

Hello, Does anyone know a command/script/grep to make sure the first letter of every line is capitalized? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit