regex - Is it possible to replace to uppercase in Visual Studio?

Question

Is it possible to replace to upper case in Visual Studio using "Find and Replace" dialog and RegEx (?) à la: . => Upper(.)?

Say I have:

m_<b>a</b>blabla

I want:

_<b>A</b>blabla

Answer 1

You can solve this by using Visual Studio temporary macros. This is a very powerful, flexible feature which I use all the time for performing repetitive code manipulations.

I'm assuming you're using the C# default key bindings here.

1. Press CTRL+SHIFT+F to bring up the find in files dialogue.
2. Click use "Regular expressions"
3. Set "Find what:" to "<m_:Ll" - words that begin with m, underscore, then a lower case letter;
4. Click "Find all" to search for all occurrences;
5. Press CTRL+SHIFT+R to start recording temporary macro;
6. Press F8 to find next occurrence of search expression;
7. Press right cursor, right cursor, SHIFT + right cursor (to skip "m_" and then select the lower case letter);
8. Press CTRL+SHIFT+U to uppercase the lower case letter;
9. Press CTRL+SHIFT+R to stop recording temporary macro;
10. Press CTRL+SHIFT+P to replay temporary macro, which will jump to next expression and uppercase the first letter after the "m_". You need to press CTRL+SHIFT+P as many times as there are expressions.