I was sitting here looking at the search string I posted in yesterday’s blog, and realized that the solution to my problem was staring me in the eye.
The string I posted yesterday was for forcing ALL CAPS into lower-case. It was a solution that included not converting Roman Numerals. I don’t really need the Roman Numerals feature, I just need the ability to change normal strings of capitalized text into lower-case, and I don’t want my search string to include articles like A and I. Compound-words, words followed by periods, commas, hyphens, semicolons, and colons also need to be converted.
The secret is in the braces part of the string: {2,} which translates into find at least two capital letters. That solves the problem if I tag it on the end of a search string that searches for the capital letters of the alphabet [A-Z].
The search string that solves my problem is:
This, combined with the Javascript I licensed a couple of weeks back, provides a solution that I like. I can now stop obsessing over this particular GREPping drama.
