Changing the case of a string in Eclipse

Question

How do I make a lowercase string uppercase using Eclipse? I want to select a string and either uppercase it or lowercase it. Is there a shortcut for doing this?

Solution 1

By default, the hotkeys:

CTRL+SHIFT+Y changes to lowercase.

CTRL+SHIFT+X changes to UPPERCASE.

Or, on a Mac:

⌘+⇧+Y changes to lowercase.

⌘+⇧+X changes to UPPERCASE.

Solution 2

You can see all shortcuts of eclipse by pressing:

CTRL+SHIFT+L

Solution 3

Help-> Key assist

You will get all of eclipse's shortcuts.

Solution 4

Eclipse only provides a keyboard shortcut by default. If you prefer to use the menu, you can use the free plugin AnyEdit Tools, which will add some entries to the context menu to change the case of the selected text:

To install:

Solution 5

Ctrl+Shift+y : To-lower
Ctrl+Shift+x : To-Upper

In addition, in Eclipse IDE, press Ctrl+Shift+L, then you see this list of shortcuts panel

then you can find any shortcut

View more solutions

Comments

[Someone Somewhere]

do you know if this can be added to the Eclipse menu, maybe under "Edit" or under "Source" ? Those hotkeys are impossible to remember.

[Ken Chan]

You can use the hot key CTRL+SHIFT+L to bring up the popup that contains all the available hot-keys

[Avi Cohen]

The hot key "CTRL+SHIFT+L" is for "Key Assist", which is under the "Help" menu.

[Emmanuel Angelo.R]

instead of going help-> key assist you can press ctrl+shift+L

[cgajardo]

on a mac you can use: cmd + shift + X (+Y)

[Gabriel Staples]

Once you've done this, scroll down the shortcut list and look for To Lower Case and To Upper Case to see they are Shift+Ctrl+Y and Shift+Ctrl+X, respectively.