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Re: Regular expression - replace lower case to upper case
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David Forrest |
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Re: Regular expression - replace lower case to upper case |
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:33:10 -0500 |
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Rod Farmer wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been looking through the manuals and can't seem to find how to
> replace all occurences of HTML tags in lower case, ie <body> with upper case
> <BODY> as seems to be the W3C standards for 4.01
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> I was going to use M-x % regexp RET string RET but what I really want is
> something like the s/foo/bar/g where
> bar can actually be a reference back to the string that has been
> matched.....
Well, you will probably need to write a function. regexps CAN refer back
to parts of the matched string (using \(html|body\) in the search part,
and \1 in the replace part), but they won't be able to uppercase it.
Dave
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