Re: capitalize string using regular expressions

[Greg Hill]

At 12:53 AM +0000 12/6/03, colin smith wrote:
>     Does anyone know how I can replace all occurences of  any strings that
> end with ".txt" (lets say "ghjkl.txt" and "xyz.txt") with their uppercase
> equivalents(ie. "GHJKL.txt" and "XYZ.txt").  There must be some way of doing
> this using regular expressions. I've looked extensively through the emacs
> help, but havent been able to figure it out.

(while (re-search-forward "\\W\\(\\w+\\)\\.txt\\W" nil t)
    (replace-match (upcase (match-string-no-properties 1))
                   nil nil nil 1)))

--Greg