Regular expression for uppercasing not working

[K.Daube]

Dear all!

I have no success in changing the case of found items with Find/Replace using Regular expression in FrameMaker 14.0.3.500.

I want change lower case characters after n-dash followed by blank b< the upper case equivalent:

Assume no change in maker.ini, hence RegularExpressionSyntax=Perl

Find:      – ([a-z])

Replace: – \U$1 or – \u$1 or – \p{Lu}$1

Consider case: on or off

=> None of the replacements does the job!

Then I have tried various things with RegularExpressionSyntax=egrep  or grep.

No success either.

My syntax reference is Replacement Strings Reference: Context and Case Conversion

Bug? Wrong syntax?

Klaus Daube

[Ian Proudfoot]

Klaus,

It looks as if FrameMaker is not working correctly with escape sequences in the Replace field. For example, the normal $1 for the first capturing group works while the alternative \1 does not.

This means that the example in the FM help document does not work either...

I think this must be a bug.

Ian

[Winfried Reng]

Hi Klaus,

I just have the same problem with FM 2019.0.2.

Did you already find a way around this?

Or did you enter this in the Adobe Bug Tracker so that I can vote for this issue?

Best regards

Winfried

[K.Daube]

Unfortuantely FM does not support regex in the Replace field! We have complained a lot about this, but yet now there is no light in the tunnel.

[Winfried Reng]

Some things are supported.

E.g. to replace regular spaces with non-breaking spaces before units.

Search (\d) mm

Replace with $1\ mm

With the $ notation you can also search and replace several groups.

But yes, there are a few regular expression features which do not work yet.

[dauphinb]

Just wondering: Is there a reliable reference describing what is and is not supported in FM regex replaces?

For that matter, is there a library anywhere of tested and verified FM regex search/replace pairs? Or do regex newbies like me just have to roll our own?

[Stefan Gentz]

There is a quite comprehensive post on the Adobe TechComm blog here: [Guest Post] “Do the magic: Regular Expressions in FrameMaker”, by Marek Pawelec – Adobe TechComm Bl...

[Winfried Reng]

Pitty. Still not working (FM 16.0.2.916).

I created a bug report in the Adobe Tracker, if someone wants to vote for this issue:

https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-10768