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From hansm@wsinti05.info.win.tue.nl (Hans Mulder)
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From: hansm@wsinti05.info.win.tue.nl (Hans Mulder)
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Newsgroups: comp.editors
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Subject: Re: Changing case during search and replace in VI
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Date: 14 Dec 1993 21:13:31 +0100
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Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Lines: 30
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In <2eh2q5$67i@ionews.io.org> chowwi@ionews.io.org (Wing-Chi Chow) writes:
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>Someone posted this awhile back, but I forgot to save the
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>article :-(, so does anyone know how I can change
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>the case of characters in a search and replace under VI.
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>I think there were some commands like &U and &L.
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In the replacement string:
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\l changes the case of the next letter to lower case
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\u changes the case of the next letter to lower case
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\L changes case to lower case until \e or \E or end of replacement
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\U changes case to upper case until \e or \E or end of replacement
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& denotes the string that matched the search pattern
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~ denotes the previous replacement string
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\1 denotes the string that matched the part of the search string
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between the leftmost \( and the corresponding \)
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\2 ditto for second \(
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\3 ditto for third \(
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: : :
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: : :
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Thus :s/pattern/\U&/g changes all occurrences of "pattern" to upper case,
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--
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Hope this helps,
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HansM
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