Re: search for any two consecutive uppercase characters

[Colin S. Miller]

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Horacio Suarez <horaciosuarez@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello all:
> >
> > Is there a way to search for any two consecutive uppercase characters? In example 
> > "PÉREZ" or
> > "GONZÁLEZ"
>
> Yes, this is difficult, because of the accented letters.  There is no
> [:upper:] in emacs regular expressions.  It might be possible to build
> a syntax table or something to identify uppercase letters including
> accented ones, but AFAIK, there's nothing built in.  The simpliest
> would be to prepare a regular expression explicitely listing all the
> characters you'd want, something like:
>
>           "\\<[A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]+\\>"
Isn't
C-u C-s   (aka isearch-forward-regexp)
[A-ZÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ]\{2,\}
better?

here \{2,\}
means two (or more) of the preceding expression.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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