Topic: Upper case first letter but don't lower all the rest
Standard with 'U' modifier
EXAMPLE: important PRIO1 document NEW.txt
EXPRESSION: %Ub
RESULT: Important Prio1 Document New.txt
This mofier change all chars to lower and then makes the very first char of each word upper.
But i didn't want all the rest lower since i have important "remarks" in the file name which should keep as they are.
So i use an (long) RegEx to find the very first letter in each word and make them upper only, leaving the rest letters in the word as they are.
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Extended with RegEx
(Note: this is an first quickly try, YMMV, could be not guarantee correct results always)
EXAMPLE: important PRIO1 document NEW.txt
EXPRESSION: %b(s/\ba/A/g)(s/\bb/B/g)(s/\bc/C/g)(s/\bd/D/g)(s/\be/E/g)(s/\bf/F/g)(s/\bg/G/g)(s/\bh/H/g)
(s/\bi/I/g)(s/\bj/J/g)(s/\bk/K/g)(s/\bl/L/g)(s/\bm/M/g)(s/\bn/N/g)(s/\bo/O/g)(s/\bp/P/g)(s/\bq/Q/g)(s/\br/R/g)
(s/\bs/S/g)(s/\bt/T/g)(s/\bu/U/g)(s/\bv/V/g)(s/\bw/W/g)(s/\bx/X/g)(s/\by/Y/g)(s/\bz/Z/g)
(Note: you have to join the three EXPRESSION lines into one very long line)
Result : Important PRIO1 Document NEW.txt (as expected)
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Extended with improved RegEx
(Note: this is an first quickly try, YMMV, could be not guarantee correct results always)
To shorten the long EXPRESSION
i try to find an short RegEx like
%b( s/ \b ([a-z]) / \U \1 /g)
EXPLANATION:
%b Siren: modifier to refer to the base of the file name
s/ RegEx: search
\b RegEx: modifier to find the word boundary
( ...) RegEx: group that what you search for into an group you can back reference to later
[a-z] RegEx: the POSIX group of all lower case chars: a,b,c,d,e,f....x,y,z
/ RegEx: set the 'replace with' apart from the 'search for'
\U RegEx: All (first char only, i think ) Chars Upper Case
\1 RegEx: back reference to group number one
/g RegEx: search 'global' instead of the first occurrence only
EXAMPLE: important PRIO1 document NEW.txt
EXPRESSION: %b(s/\b([a-z])/\U\1/g)
RESULT: Important PRIO1 Document NEW.txt
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