[Solved] Find & Replace: Upper Case words to Lower Case (+)

[clausisme]

I've been looking for a way to change any words found in uppercase into lowercase + a symbol. For example NYPD to *nypd (this is a special rule used in braille where words like THIS are written like *this in most languages). I used * as an example of a special character.
Right now I just search with [A-Z][A-Z] (with match case), that finds me uppercase words with at least 2 letters and then I manually do the rest. Is there a way to do that automatically ?

[Zizi64]

Use the Regular Expressions for finding the "uppercase words" with the "word boundary" option :

[:upper:]*\b

(check-in the RegEx option)

[John_Ha]

See [Tutorial]How to record a macro (and Regular Expressions)

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[clausisme]

Ok so far I got this:

Search for
(\w)([A-Z]+)
Replace with
*$1$2

So I get
NYPD > *NYPD
And I would need:
NYPD > *nypd

The problem is I have no clue how to do the lowercase in the replace.
The one suggested before ([:upper:]*\b) would also select one letter words (not wanted) .

[John_Ha]

Can you do it in two steps?

1 Find any word in upper case and add the * symbol.
2 Change all upper case words to lowercase. Or change all characters following the * symbol up to the space (or stop, comma etc) to lower case.

Regular expressions are universal and not confined to AOO. Just google for what you want and you almost certainly will find it - regular expressions change case finds Replacement Text Case Conversion

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[Zizi64]

to the replace window:

*S0

and see the lowercase fomatting option in the topic:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=71914

[clausisme]

OK to sum up changing uppercase words like "NYPD" "OK" (at least 2 letters) to lower case works with this:

Search for:
(\w)([A-Z]+)
Replace with
$0

MatchCase-[ticked]
Format>Font Efects>Lowercase

And you can add a charater in the Replace before or after $0, like *$0* (this will make NYPD into *nypd*)

Thank you all for your help.


I was looking around on that site regular-expressions.info and other places google found me they all said "\L" should work ... but it does not. So the regex in OpenOffice is different and sometimes non-intuitive things like Search for "[:lower:]" work, but Replace with "[:lower:]" does not.