will change the word the to The as long as it is at the beginning of a string, after a newline character or after one of .-( [ < { : & ' " ? ! /
If you want to use \~ and \{ sequences, the \~ sequence must come first and be immediately followed by the \{ sequence.
Another special sequence can be used to remove trailing periods (.). A from pattern of \. will remove all trailing periods (.) and replace it with the possibly empty to pattern. This sequence is now deprecated. Trailing periods can be removed in a rename template's advanced settings.