Regular Expressions, Examples of actions with Regular Expressions Options

[Florian]

This thread collects some useful regular expressions.

If you created a regular expression which solves a common task, please post it here and give a short description what it is supposed to do.

These regular expressions can be used with the action type Replace with regular expression. Please look at FAQ: How do I create a new action? to learn more about actions in Mp3tag.

-> If you have problems with a regular expression, please open a separate topic.

[InspectorMustach...]

This RegEx will convert abbreviations composed of single chars and points between (and/or behind it) to uppercase.
Single chars without points around remains lowercase, except if a "-"char and a space is before it. (Example: "Songname - A text")

This didn't work for me. I tried to make my own and came up with this simple RegEx to get the cases right in my tags:

REGULAR EXPRESSION:
\b(?<!')(\w)
REPLACE WITH:
\u\1

This works for me. You can apply this to the _ALL field but be aware that this capitalizes your extensions too. If this looks somehow annoying to you (as it does to me), simply apply this to the _FILENAME field afterwards:

REGULAR EXPRESSION:
\.([^\.]+)$
REPLACE WITH:
.\L\1\E

These are both pretty simple but I spent quite a time figuring out how to make these apply for Unicode. I finally found out that Mp3tag has Unicode functionality standardly implemented into its RegEx engine. Heh.


Edit: Here's some improvement. The last one only replaced the first letter of the word and put it into upper case disregarding the rest of the word. This one also puts those that follow the first letter into lower case ("DAItro" becomes "Daitro"):

REGULAR EXPRESSION:
\b(?<')([a-zA-Z])([^']*?)\b
REPLACE WITH:
\u\1\L\2\E

This next one is basically the same but takes note of the French article L' and puts the letter following the article into upper case. So, for example, "L'eau" becomes "L'Eau".

REGULAR EXPRESSION:
\b(?<!(?<!\s[Ll])')([a-zA-Z])([^']*?)\b
REPLACE WITH:
\u\1\L\2\E

This post has been edited by InspectorMustache: Dec 6 2010, 12:58