Convert ALL UPPER CASE to Sentence Case

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December 15th, 2012, 09:08 AM

seamoon

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Convert ALL UPPER CASE to Sentence Case

I want to convert ALL UPPER CASE to Sentence Case the text between h1 tag below (the text varies on every page), how can I do this?

Code:

<h1>ORTA YAŞLARDA TOPLUMSAL YAŞAM</h1>

December 15th, 2012, 07:54 PM

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1. Extract the text using whatever you want
2. Convert it all to lowercase
3. Use a regex to replace the first letter of each "word", however you define that, with itself capitalized. You'll need help from your programming language to do that

What programming language?

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December 16th, 2012, 04:58 AM

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Yes, not easy as a pure regex.

An example using Perl:

Perl Code:

Original - Perl Code
$string = lc $string; # everything to lower case $string =~ s/\b(\w)/uc($1)/ge; # first letter of words to upper case

$string = lc $string; # everything to lower case
$string =~ s/\b(\w)/uc($1)/ge; # first letter of words to upper case

Depending on your locale setup for Unicode in your language, you might have specific problems with special characters such as 'Ş'.

December 16th, 2012, 08:51 AM

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I use Powergrep to replace batch text. I guess first I should find the text using <h1>([^>]+)</h1> then what command to put in replace section to convert them lower case?