From: David Forrest <drf5n@mug.sys.virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: Regular expression - replace lower case to upper case
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:33:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210312129010.6470-100000@mug.sys.virginia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <apslo1$iuj$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Rod Farmer wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been looking through the manuals and can't seem to find how to
> replace all occurences of HTML tags in lower case, ie <body> with upper case
> <BODY> as seems to be the W3C standards for 4.01
>
> I was going to use M-x % regexp RET string RET but what I really want is
> something like the s/foo/bar/g where
> bar can actually be a reference back to the string that has been
> matched.....
Well, you will probably need to write a function. regexps CAN refer back
to parts of the matched string (using \(html|body\) in the search part,
and \1 in the replace part), but they won't be able to uppercase it.
Dave
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-01 4:33 Regular expression - replace lower case to upper case Rod Farmer
2002-11-01 2:32 ` Michael Slass
2002-11-01 19:34 ` Reiner Steib
2002-11-01 21:49 ` Michael Slass
2002-11-01 2:33 ` David Forrest [this message]
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