From: Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>
Subject: Re: capitalize string using regular expressions
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 19:29:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p06002000bbf6fcc5ec19@[10.1.4.35]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3M9Ab.324$vg4.207@nwrdny02.gnilink.net>
At 12:53 AM +0000 12/6/03, colin smith wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can replace all occurences of any strings that
>end with ".txt" (lets say "ghjkl.txt" and "xyz.txt") with their uppercase
>equivalents(ie. "GHJKL.txt" and "XYZ.txt"). There must be some way of doing
>this using regular expressions. I've looked extensively through the emacs
>help, but havent been able to figure it out.
(while (re-search-forward "\\W\\(\\w+\\)\\.txt\\W" nil t)
(replace-match (upcase (match-string-no-properties 1))
nil nil nil 1)))
--Greg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-06 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 0:53 capitalize string using regular expressions colin smith
2003-12-06 2:19 ` Tim Heaney
2003-12-06 3:29 ` Greg Hill [this message]
2003-12-06 4:29 ` Pascal Bourguignon
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