Changing a lower case letter of the first word to uppercase letter of the first word in a sentence

[Linton Hutchinson]

How do I 

Changing a lower case letter of the first word in a sentence to uppercase letter of the first word in the sentence for all entries in a txt file

using GREP?

[Fletcher Sandbeck]

This seems to work. It's a little tricky to be sure you're at the start of a sentence so I'd advice cycling through the matches rather than doing a global replace.

Search pattern: (?:^|\. +)[a-z]

Replace pattern: \L\0

Use with grep and case sensitive turned on. The search pattern finds either the start of a line ^ or an escaped period followed by one or more spaces, wrapped in (?: ) so they don't define a sub-pattern. Followed by the lowercase character. The replacement uses \U to make the replacement uppercase. And we replace the whole pattern so we don't lose the period.

Hope this helps,

[fletcher]

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[Fletcher Sandbeck]

Replace should be \U\0 of course. \L makes it lowercase. \U makes it uppercase.

[fletcher]

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[Dr. Linton Hutchinson]

This seems to work Thanks Fletcher

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