Capitalizing First Letters

Submitted by ELApro on Wednesday, 27 October, 2004 - 17:05

How can one write a macro to capitalize the first letter of each word? My current approach would be...

search for words with the regular expression...
([a-zA-Z0-9])([a-zA-Z0-9])+

but can a variable eg, firstLetter, be assigned to $1 so that I can set...

firstLetter.toUpperCase();

Macro with Beanshell snippet

by fixedsys on Thu, 28/10/2004 - 06:24

Hi,

this macro may help you. It should capitalitze the first letter of each word in the selection(!).

SearchAndReplace.setSearchString("(\\b[a-z])([A-Za-z0-9]+)");
SearchAndReplace.setReplaceString("_1.toUpperCase()+_2");
SearchAndReplace.setBeanShellReplace(true);
SearchAndReplace.setIgnoreCase(false);
SearchAndReplace.setRegexp(true);
SearchAndReplace.replace(view);

Hope it helps,
Lars

Capitalizing First Letters

by Anonymous on Fri, 29/10/2004 - 11:41

Works Great!

Didn't know about _1 and _2 in Search context.
Only knew about $1 and $2 for other uses.

One Question: it won't work without it, but why is the "+" necessary in "_1.toUpperCase()+_2" ?

Thanks Lars!

Pat
elapro.net

Because the replace "string"

by Anonymous on Fri, 29/10/2004 - 13:22

Because the replace "string" is a BeanShell snippet ("SearchAndReplace.setBeanShellReplace(true);" in the macro) -- refer to the user's guide for more info.

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