Well, by converting to sentence case, I mean changing only the first letter after a period to caps, not the first letter in every word to caps. I'm sorry, UE just doesn't do that. And how about programming UE to NOT lowercase the first letter in words like (Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday|Thur.|Wed.|Fri.), etc. to lowercase in a chunk of text. Or how about programming it to NOT capitalize words like 'the' or 'a' when not found at the beginning of line or sentence? With something like Vim, you could pipe the text to some Perl program to handle that kind of thing for you.

And, yes, I deal with stuff like this all the time when editing/revising content formatted with HTML (not that I would ever use UE to edit HTML in the first place) and so I do need custom, heavy duty regular expressions. And that brings me back to the major reason I wrote this program: Dreamweaver, which I use to edit HTML all the time, is almost totally useless for what I need.

Yes, I have version 10 of UE and I have seen, and used on occasion, the "advanced" RE syntax it uses. You are right, UE suits my purposes 99 times out of 100 when I'm coding and I'm glad it suits yours. I didn't mean to insult anyone when saying UE probably isn't suited for "hard core" programmers. I'm sorry if you somehow found this offensive.

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