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regexreplacelowercase

regex implementation to replace group with its lowercase version

Is there any implementation of regex that allow to replace group in regex with lowercase version of it?

Solution

  • In Perl, you can do:

    $string =~ s/(some_regex)/lc($1)/ge;

    The /e option causes the replacement expression to be interpreted as Perl code to be evaluated, whose return value is used as the final replacement value. lc($x) returns the lowercased version of $x. (Not sure but I assume lc() will handle international characters correctly in recent Perl versions.)

    /g means match globally. Omit the g if you only want a single replacement.