Notepad++ and regex: how to UPPERCASE specific part of a string / find / replace

Question

i\'ve been trying for some time now to get this working, but i can\'t find a solution to this task myself - ok, i\'m very new to regex-use but quite interested to learn, hop

Answer 1

Scenario 1: generate uppercase for matches on Notepad++

You can use a regex like this:

\(.*?\)|(\w+)

Working demo

Then on your Find/Replace dialog you can put \U\1 on Replace with. So, if you go over Find Next you can replace the string to generate the uppercase output.

Scenario 2: concatenate tags on each line

You can use this regex:

(.+?)\[

Working demo

Answer 2

For part 1 you can use

Find:  ^(.*?)(?=\()
Replace \U\1

Make sure regex is selected

for part 2

Find: ^(.*?)(\(.*?\))
Replace:%htmltag%\1%/htmltag%\2

which takes

WORD1 WORD2 WORD3 (some words in brackets)
WORD1 (some words in brackets)
WORD1, WORD2 (some words in brackets)

and converts it to

%htmltag%WORD1 WORD2 WORD3 %/htmltag%(some words in brackets)
%htmltag%WORD1 %/htmltag%(some words in brackets)
%htmltag%WORD1, WORD2 %/htmltag%(some words in brackets)