Changing the case of a string in Eclipse

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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?

score 377 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 15 '15 at 11:54

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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.

edited Oct 15 '15 at 11:54

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answered Jul 22 '11 at 17:14

Ken Chan

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do you know if this can be added to the Eclipse menu, maybe under "Edit" or under "Source" ? Those hotkeys are impossible to remember. – Someone Somewhere Oct 04 '12 at 18:48
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You can use the hot key CTRL+SHIFT+L to bring up the popup that contains all the available hot-keys – Ken Chan Oct 04 '12 at 18:57
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The hot key "CTRL+SHIFT+L" is for "Key Assist", which is under the "Help" menu. – Avi Cohen Sep 27 '13 at 05:54
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on a mac you can use: cmd + shift + X (+Y) – cgajardo Mar 19 '15 at 17:54

score 28 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 19 '14 at 20:59

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You can see all shortcuts of eclipse by pressing:

CTRL+SHIFT+L

edited Oct 19 '14 at 20:59

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answered Aug 20 '14 at 08:07

Levent Akdeniz

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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. – Gabriel Staples Apr 28 '20 at 07:08

score 20 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 19 '14 at 20:51

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Help-> Key assist

You will get all of eclipse's shortcuts.

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Tobias

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answered Jul 31 '13 at 09:43

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instead of going help-> key assist you can press ctrl+shift+L – Emmanuel Angelo.R Sep 12 '14 at 05:26

score 15 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 27 '16 at 20:24

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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:

answered Aug 27 '16 at 20:24

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score 5 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 05 '18 at 13:18

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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

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answered Jan 08 '17 at 10:03

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