Grep pattern needed

[Otto Munters]

I use this Grep pattern   ^[a-z]+[\W]*$  to find lines consisting of one single word without a capital letter and including punctuation. However, BBedit also finds words that start with a capital letter. How can I correct that?

Thanks for helping!

Otto

[GP]

If you look at the grep cheat sheet associated to "Find:" (the circled ? drop down menu) and scrolling down toward the bottom you'll find (?-i) Force case-sensitive matching. So, change you grep pattern to:

(?-i)^[a-z]+[\W]*$

and you'll find only a all-lower-case word and not any word containing a upper case letter.

[Roland Küffner]

Just to be sure: do you have the "Case sensitive" option turned on in the Find dialog? In a quick test your pattern worked as expected … IF "Case sensitive" was turned on.

Regards, Roland

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[Rick Gordon]

If you add (?-i) to the start of the string, it will work regardless of the Case-sensitive setting.

Rick Gordon

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From:	Roland Küffner <medien...@gmail.com>
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Date:	Mon, Apr 7, 2025 3:39:59PM -0700
Subject:	Grep pattern needed

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