Notepad ++ Change last name from Upper case to Proper case

Question

Hi I would like to replace all the "last name" instances in my text file from full upper case to Proper case. DOE to Doe or IPSUM to Ipsum as you can see below

Name = John DOE
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Name = Lorem IPSUM
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to

Name = John Doe
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Name = Lorem Ipsum
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And I would like to do that for thousands of instances like this in a text file. What do I have to "Find and replace" on Notepad++?

Thanks!

Answer 1

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: (?:Name =|\G(?!^)) \K(\w)(\w+)
• Replace with: \u$1\L$2
• CHECK Wrap around
• CHECK Regular expression
• UNCHECK . matches newline
• Replace all

Explanation:

(?:             # non capture group
    Name =          # literally
  |               # OR
    \G(?!^)         # restart from last match position if not beginning of line
)               # end group
                # a space
\K              # forget all we have seen until this position
(\w)            # group 1, first letter
(\w+)           # group 2, following letters

Replacement:

\u$1        # uppercased  1rst letter
\L$2        # lowercased ather letters

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Answer 2

You can use replace text (Ctrl+H) by regular expression:

Find : Name = (\w+) \<(\w+)
Replace : Name = \1 \L\u\2

Explanation:

Find text

• \< matches the beginning of a word
• (\w+) matches any sequence of word letters

Replace text

• \L translates everything to lowercase until the end of the replacement string
• \u translates the next letter to uppercase
• \1 places the first captured () search group
• \2 places the second captured () search group