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TC8.01 Multi-Rename Tool: Change First letter uppercase
Posted: 2013-07-19, 23:27 UTC
by Helmut Ripke
In the Multi-Rename Tool please correct the "Change First letter uppercase" to mean just that: alphabetic letter, excluding numbers, symbols or hyphenation.
example:
input - 01. This Letter is Uppercase
should be converted to - 01. This letter is uppercase
as opposed to the current behavior - 01. this letter is uppercase
Thanks for listening! HR
TC 8.01-64
Single User license # 28477
Windows 7
Posted: 2013-07-20, 09:27 UTC
by Henrie
I never really gave it any second thought. But now that you mention it, a more correct description would be "Change first character uppercase". Because that is how the function behaves.
Posted: 2013-07-21, 12:48 UTC
by Helmut Ripke
Quite true, but changing anything but letters (alphabetic characters) to uppercase doesn't make a whole lot of sense. That's why I would still like to see my suggestion implemented.
Posted: 2013-07-21, 16:17 UTC
by white
Helmut Ripke wrote:Quite true, but changing anything but letters (alphabetic characters) to uppercase doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
That's only true when those non alphabetic characters are not part of the sentence. For things like "21st century" it does make sense.
Helmut Ripke wrote:
In the Multi-Rename Tool please correct the "Change First letter uppercase" to mean just that: alphabetic letter, excluding numbers, symbols or hyphenation.
example:
input - 01. This Letter is Uppercase
should be converted to - 01. This letter is uppercase
Do you know you can work around this?
In case your sentence always starts at position 5 you can use "[N1-4]
[N5][L][N6-][n]" in the file name mask field.
Or to change first a-z character:
Code: Select all
File name mask: [N]\[U][N]
Search for: [a-z](.*)\\.*?([a-z]).*|\\.*
Replace with: $2$1
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Posted: 2013-07-21, 18:01 UTC
by Helmut Ripke
Thanks, that seems to fit the bill, although not quite as neatly as I had imagined.
On copy-pasting your [N1-4][N5][L][N6-][n] into my Rename mask box, nothing is happening and I don't know where to apply the code snippet either.
HR
Posted: 2013-07-21, 18:04 UTC
by Helmut Ripke
I thake that back - I had the "all lowercase" button ticked. It works just as advertised now. Thanks again! HR
Posted: 2013-07-21, 18:06 UTC
by Horst.Epp
Helmut Ripke wrote:Thanks, that seems to fit the bill, although not quite as neatly as I had imagined.
On copy-pasting your [N1-4][N5][L][N6-][n] into my Rename mask box, nothing is happening and I don't know where to apply the code snippet either.
HR
"[N1-4][N5][L][N6-][n]" in the file name mask field