How can I use the capturing group in a function?

=REGEXREPLACE("string", "(ng)", UPPER("$1"))

The above returns "string", but should return "striNG".

I suspect that this is because UPPER is capitalizing the string "$1" rather than the string with the captured group substituted into it.

UPPER

How can I make REGEXREPLACE output the expected result?

REGEXREPLACE

3 Answers
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You could try splitting this into two parts returning the latter part as upper. Not sure how to nest the upper inside the regex in Gsheets.

=REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"stri") & upper(REGEXEXTRACT(A1, "(ng)"))

this returned for me:

string > striNG

it will highly depend on actual data, but these works too for string

string

=REGEXREPLACE("stri"&UPPER("ng"); "(ng)"; "$1")

=REGEXREPLACE("string";"(n)";"")& UPPER(REGEXREPLACE("string";"([a-z]4)";"")

=LEFT(REGEXREPLACE("string";"(w)";"$1");4)& UPPER(RIGHT(REGEXREPLACE("string";"(w)";"$1");2))

all returns: striNG

striNG

this will replace ng with NG in the word string or any other word consisting of ng

ng

NG

string

ng

=REGEXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE("string"; "(ng)"; "NG"); "[a-zA-Z]1,")

this formula will do the same, but it uses UPPER() to do so:

UPPER()

=REGEXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE("string"; "(ng)"; UPPER("ng")); "[a-zA-Z]1,")

this formula provides a little bit more flexibility by using RIGHT() and specifying capital characters:

RIGHT()

=REGEXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE("string"; "(ng)"; RIGHT(UPPER("string"); 2)); "[a-zA-Z]1,")

and this final formula is able to take any word and also it's fully adjustable by specifying how many characters from the right side to the end of the word should be CAPSed:

CAPS

=REGEXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE("string"; RIGHT("string"; 2); RIGHT(UPPER("string"); 2)); "[a-zA-Z]1,")

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