Re: Regular expression for lower case to upper case.

> On 10 Dec 2022, at 12:00, Eagna <eagna(at)protonmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi, and thanks for your input.
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>> RegExp by itself cannot do this. You have to match all parts of the input into different capturing groups, then use lower() combined with format() to build a new string. Putting the capturing groups into an array is the most useful option.
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> OK - I *_kind_* of see what you're saying.
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> There's a small fiddle here (https://dbfiddle.uk/rhw1AdBY) if you'd care to give an outline of the solution that you propose.

If you put all the regexes and their replacements into a table[1], you could use an aggregate over them to combine all the replacements into the final string. It would need some aggregate like regex_replace_agg, which would probably be a custom aggregate.

[1]: If you stick to ASCII, you could just calculate them and even omit storing them in a physical table.

Alban Hertroys
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