Alternating Case

Overview

What Alternating Case does

Switch letters between uppercase and lowercase. It runs locally and handles the selected text without contacting a service.

Example

Action and outcome

Workflow

Use Alternating Case

Follow these steps to switch letters between uppercase and lowercase with ActionClip.

1. Select the text you want to use.
2. Choose Alternating Case from ActionClip.
3. In editable text, ActionClip replaces the selection immediately. In read-only text, it opens the result for review and copying.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

• Before you start: No setup required.
• Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

function run(selected_text) {
  var upper = true;
  return Array.from(selected_text.toLocaleLowerCase()).map(function (character) {
    if (!/\p{L}/u.test(character)) return character;
    var result = upper ? character.toLocaleUpperCase() : character;
    upper = !upper;
    return result;
  }).join("");
}