Remove words with lowercase letters in them

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I am reading words from an image(licence) and I know that every word on this licence is uppercase so…If it picks up background noise and returns lowercase letters alone or in words I know that that is not useful/or incorrect information.

From a licence this data is returned….

aaaa——————————————aESESESsSs—— VICTORIA AUSTRALIA JANE CITIZEN 87652301 FLAT 10 " 77 SAMPLE-PARADE . ‘ KEW-EAST VIC 3102 .\ e ol LICENCE EXPIRY DATE OF BIRTH 20-05-2019 29-07-1983 \ ' ) EICENCE TYRE ‘CONDITIONS Alh 7 al CAR A\ SBEAXYZ 28071985 SN |_vicroads | =< AN e

One of my points of sanitising this into useful info is to remove all words and letters with lowercase characters. Will I need to split by space, then iterate through each word and remove if it finds lowercase or is there a regex pattern I can use?

I tried this text = text.replace(/[^A-Z0-9 \n]/g, '') but would like to also remove full words with lowercase letters as oppose to just all lowercase letters by themselves.

Thanks

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  1. Use

    /\W*\w*[a-z]\w*/g

    See proof.

    NODE EXPLANATION
    \W* non-word characters (all but a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) (0 or more times (matching the most amount possible))
    \w* word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) (0 or more times (matching the most amount possible))
    [a-z] any character of: ‘a’ to ‘z’
    \w* word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) (0 or more times (matching the most amount possible))
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  2. You can optionally match non whitspace chars without a lowercase char. Then match a lowercase char followed by optional non whitespace chars.

    [^\sa-z]*[a-z]\S*

    The pattern matches:

    • [^\sa-z]* optionally match a non whitespace char except a-z
    • [a-z] Match a single lowercase char a-z
    • \S* Match optional non whitespace chars

    Regex demo

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