Finding annotations that start with a lowercase letter?

ELAN
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Hello!

I am trying to search for annotations that start with a lowercase letter/character (specifically, a-z in lower case and some other latin extended characters used in the language in question: ɛ, ɲ, ŋ, ɔ.

I have tried using the regular expression ^[a-zɛɲŋɔ], but to no avail in my ELAN project.

Does anyone know of a good way to search for and find annotations that start with lowercase letters/characters within ELAN?

My goals is to quickly identify sequences like the following and then merge the annotations:

ANNOTATION 1:
Can you tell us

ANNOTATION 2:
something about that?

Thank you for your help in advance!

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Hello,

Your regular expression works when I try it here! Both in the single file search and the multiple file search.
Which one are you using and what exactly goes wrong (no hits at all, hits starting with upper case characters, etc)? I assume it’s not a matter of a case sensitive checkbox not selected or similar?

-Han

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Eek! It was as simple as checking the “case sensitive” box. Sorry! I thought that was for people not using a regular expression. Thanks for your help!

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I understand, I wasn’t quite sure myself. Having this option can make regular expressions a bit simpler in some cases, I guess.