Re: How to change the first character of Dim variable names to upper case

On Nov 12, 1:16 pm, "Academia" <academiaNOS...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Nov 12, 10:30 am, "Academia" <academiaNOS...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If I use the classic replace I'll have to do it 26 times. I was hoping
that
the Regular Expression could do it with one search.
I just don't know how to upper case the replacement group.

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in the ide`s find and replace dialog , there is the option to use Regex
,
although in my opinion it is a bit overkill for what you want to
acomplish
a simple "clasic" find and replace will probably do the job much faster
and easier

also note that the dialect used in the IDE is slightly different :-(

Do you mean the IDE dialect is different from RegEx?
Doing somethings in RegEx is differsnt than doing it in the IDE?

Thanks

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000633.html

regards

Michel

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I want to search for Dim [a-z] and replace it with Dim [A-Z]

That is, I want to change the first character of Dim variable names to
upper case.

I can't figure know to use Regular Expression to do that.

Is it possible?

Thanks

It's certainly not the Regex I'm used too. In researched for your
solution, I realized things like excluding prefix/suffice matches
simply give a "No Matches Found" message.

I'm curious however, why do you need to capitalize your variable
names?

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

Actually I mis-spoke.

I really like to have those variable names start with lower case but
sometimes I mistakenly use upper case so I'd like to fix all those mistakes
in an app with many files.

thanks

Ah, that makes better sense.

Personally, I would do a standard search for "Dim " and just keep
clicking enter until you find one that needs changed. Regex would have
been easier, but without the excluded suffix matching (which would
allow you search for a string, but only replace the beginning of it) I
don't know how you could get it to work.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

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