Re: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Horacio Suarez <horaciosuarez@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hello all:
>>
>> Is there a way to search for any two consecutive uppercase characters? In example "PÉREZ" or
>> "GONZÁLEZ"
> 
> Yes, this is difficult, because of the accented letters.  There is no
> [:upper:] in emacs regular expressions.  It might be possible to build
> a syntax table or something to identify uppercase letters including
> accented ones, but AFAIK, there's nothing built in.  The simpliest
> would be to prepare a regular expression explicitely listing all the
> characters you'd want, something like:
> 
>           "\\<[A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]+\\>"
> 
Isn't
C-u C-s   (aka isearch-forward-regexp)
[A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]\{2,\}
better?

here \{2,\}
means two (or more) of the preceding expression.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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