On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 14:49 -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> Laurent Duperval wrote:
> 
> > For example, if cell A1 contains "S1"
> >
> > =countif(A1;"S1")
> >
> > gives 1
> >
> > = countif(A1;".*")
> >
> > gives 0
> >
> > Looks like the RE parser is broken. -(
> >
> 
> After further investigation, it looks like it doesn't work in that 
> specific spreadsheet. If I create a new spreadsheet and use the above 
> values, everything works as expected.
> 
> I tried adding a new sheet to my document to see, and I get the same 
> problem. I'm not sure what the problem is.

Is the mal-functioning spreadsheet one created in OOo or is it
a MS Excel one that you imported? You may want to check your
Tools->Options just to see if the regular expressions under
Spreadsheet->Calculate is selected?

Regards
Jonathon

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