To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=114976 Issue #|114976 Summary|Find & replace regular expression behaves strangely Component|framework Version|OOo 3.2.1 Platform|Macintosh URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|code Assigned to|tm Reported by|juliandroms
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Oct 7 08:10:09 +0000 2010 ------- OOo 3.2.1 (OOO320m18) has Find & Replace feature that behaves strangely using regular expression which has been present for more than a year. I inadvertently thought this was a more over-arching problem, but it appears to only occur in limited circumstances. Using Find & Replace in a text document that has more than one paragraph: (1) Choose Find & Replace from the Edit menu. (2) Select "More options." (3) Check the "regular expressions" box. (4) Put "$" in the "Search for" box. - $ is reg exp for end of paragraph. (5) Put "\t" in the "Replace with" box. - \t is reg exp for tab. (6) Select "Replace all". Find & Replace will Find correctly the end of each paragraph, but will Replace the paragraph break with the literal "\t" rather than the tab character that the reg exp represents. A workaround is to put ".$" in the "Search for" box and "$\t" in the "Replace with" box, but this workaround is not particularly obvious. Another quirk: (4) Put "^" in the "Search for" box - ^ is reg exp for beginning of paragraph. When searching for this reg exp alone, it does not identify any paragraph breaks, whereas when searching for "$" alone does identify paragraph breaks. This may be intentional, but if so you may think about changing the documentation ("list of regular expressions") to reflect the difference in the two reg exp. These types of searches are very useful for reformatting data for calc spreadsheets. I think it likely that I am not the only one using it for this purpose. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
