Comments on: Fun with regular expressions

by: Damian Clark

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:20:00 +0000

I agree that RegEx is the way to go, but a poor implementation limits the usefullness of this app.
I regularly turn to ABFR but when capitalisation is concerned have to look elsewhere.

by: Jean-Jacques Ardoino

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:49:43 +0000

Thanks Frank,

If they could change that (case changes and other stuffs), I think it would be great for the reg ex replacing !

Best regards,
Jean-Jacques

by: Jean-Jacques Ardoino

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:49:32 +0000

Thanks Frank,

If they could change that (case changes and other stuffs), I think it would great for the reg ex replacing !

Best regards,
Jean-Jacques

by: reiff

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:20:57 +0000

Hi Jean-Jacques,

ABFR only supports the /1, /2, /3, etc. syntax and does not support case changes, etc.

I’ll see what I can do with the providers of my reg ex package.

Best regards,

Frank

by: Jean-Jacques Ardoino

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:39:58 +0000

Hi,
I tried to use reg ex with A Better Finder Rename, with substitution groups. It’s OK to get a “/1″, a “/2″, a “/3″…

But I wanted to use the substitution field to get the first letter of a group in upper case.

Generally, I have to use “\u\1″ (it works with BBEdit’s grep).

But it doesn’t work in A Better Finder Rename.

Does it mean that “Replace using regular expressions” can only be used to replace text or permute groups, but can’t be used to change the case of some letters ?

I worked hard to understand how reg ex and substitution expression works, and I need to change the case of some letters only in filenames, so “Convert to uppercase” and Convert to title case” don’t do the right work.

So I hoped I could use reg ex and substitution expression to do that.

Thanks for your answer,

Regards,
Jean-Jacques