Launchpad has imported 18 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52504.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-07-25T21:05:07+00:00 jimav wrote: What is expected to happen in Writer, Calc, or the Macro Editor is when one opens the Find & Replace window, with Regular Expression checkbox checked, in the Search for drop down put a circumflex in, and the beginning of every paragraph is found. Consulting the LO Wiki and built-in LO help, it is implied that using a circumflex by itself in the find field should match the beginning of a paragraph: http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions What happens instead is nothing is found. NOTE: A dollarsign ($) by itself *does* work as expected, i.e., it matches the end of each line. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-10-06T20:51:47+00:00 Cno wrote: Hi Jim, Pls use "^." (without the quotes) to find the first character of a paragraph. I think the ^ only is used in combinations. See some examples/explanation in the help . Regards, Cor Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-10-07T07:56:53+00:00 jimav wrote: No. ^. is not equivalent. ^. means to match the first character on the line, and if doing a replace then the first character would be deleted. ^ by itself matches the start of the line (not including any characters), and replacing it with something effectively inserts the "replacement" text at the start of the line. You could use something ugly like replacing ^(.) with ${1}PREFIX to avoid deleting the first character, but that would fail on blank lines which don't have any characters in them. In any case, ^ (by itslef) is a standard, well-defined regular expression syntax used everywhere else (Perl, Python, vim etc. etc.) and Libre Office should not do something incompatible. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-10-07T08:01:57+00:00 jimav wrote: If you are unsure how regular expression syntax should work (in industry-wide practice), there are many books and online references, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#POSIX_Basic_Regular_Expressions Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-10-07T22:20:08+00:00 Cno wrote: Hi Jim, OK, sorry & thanks for explanantion. (In the mena time I understood that the same applies for $, that cannot be used on itself to find the end of a paragraph). Did it ever work as is expected, or is it something that has to be implemented.. In that case, this would be an enhancement... Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-10-09T00:37:57+00:00 jimav wrote: AFAIK ^ has never worked correctly. I doubt anyone intentionally made Open Office regular expressions incompatible with industry practice, so I think this is a bug, not a missing feature. -Jim Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-10-09T00:58:11+00:00 jimav wrote: Incidentally $ does match the end of paragraphs (as documented), but seems to match the paragraph break (not just tne -position- at the end of the paragraph), so paragraphs are merged forming a single new paragraph. Except only one of a group of successive empty paragraphs is matched. Matching the para-break itself seems odd to me (as usually unhelpful), but might be intentional. However the fact that only some empty paragraphs are matched is almost certainly a bug. EXAMPLE: In the following 1-line paragraphs, there are two empty paras between b and c (<P> indicates the paragraph symbol which is shown when displaying non-printing characters): a<P> b<P> <P> <P> c<P> Find-and-replace of $ with X replaces the 5 paragraphs with 2 paragraphs: aXbX<P> Xc<P> As you can see, the 5 paragraphs were collapsed into two paragraphs, except the "paragraph break" was not removed for one of the empty paragraps. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-05-15T07:38:55+00:00 jimav wrote: Any thoughts about fixing this? It's still a problem in 4.3-alpha1 Note that searching for ^. is not a work-around because it will not match the start of empty paragraphs (the "." does not match). So if you want to prepend something to every paragraph in a selection which includes empty paragraphs, then ^ alone is necessary. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-06-22T13:34:30+00:00 Cno wrote: Isn't your case just covered by using & in search and \nFOO in replace? For me that works in Writer Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-06-22T22:47:25+00:00 jimav wrote: > Isn't your case just covered by using > & in search and > \nFOO in replace? Maybe that was a typo. The above does not work (does nothing--not matched). Can you suggest a work-around which inserts some text at the start of every line in Calc's Basic macro editor (including empty lines)? That's the problem this bug was originally about and which *should* be easy by replacing ^ with the desired text. That is standard regex behavior everywhere else in computerdom. ^ on its own should work (just like $ on its own does). Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-06-29T18:58:35+00:00 Cno wrote: (In reply to comment #9) > Can you suggest a work-around which inserts some text at the start of every > line in Calc's Basic macro editor (including empty lines)? The component of this issue is Writer .. ? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-06-30T15:56:09+00:00 jimav wrote: Not sure where the regex code is. It manifests in writer and and ing Basic macro editor in Calc. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-11-04T20:53:06+00:00 Cno wrote: Still a problem in 4.4.0alpha1 > New Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-11-05T16:52:58+00:00 jimav wrote: Maybe Component should be changed to Spreadsheet, because the problem is more simply visible when editing Basic macro code. It is common to want to insert spaces at the start of every line in a range (e.g. to "indent" the code one level), and replacing ^ with spaces does not work. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2015-06-07T20:08:52+00:00 Gordon1drake wrote: To add text to the beginning of every paragraph you can do it in two passes. The first finds the start of the paragraph and the first character and replaces it with whatever text and the first character. The second pass will find empty paragraphs and replace it with whatever text and a paragraph break. Search For: ^. Replace With: <text>& Search For: ^$ Replace With: <text>\n I don't know if LO has anything for the start of a line whether it is the beginning of a paragraph or a line that has been word-wrapped . Windows Vista 64 Version: 4.4.3.2 Build ID: 88805f81e9fe61362df02b9941de8e38a9b5fd16 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/36 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2015-06-07T22:11:36+00:00 jimav wrote: > Search For: ^. etc. No, that does not work as explained in comment#2 (empty lines have nothing for the "." to match). The ^ alone is supposed to match the start (but doesn't). Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2015-06-07T22:57:45+00:00 Gordon1drake wrote: You have four paragraphs like this: this works this works this works First, run this: Search For: ^. Replace With: yes & Then, run this: Search For: ^$ Replace With: this also works\n The result looks like this: yes this works this also works yes this works yes this works Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2015-06-07T23:08:05+00:00 jimav wrote: Ok, I see what you are doing. That two-step procedure will work (but should not be needed). Thanks for pointing it out. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/465309/comments/39 ** Changed in: df-libreoffice Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: df-libreoffice Importance: Unknown => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465309 Title: [Upstream] Regular Expression Search for circumflex by itself does not find beginning of a paragraph Status in LibreOffice: Confirmed Status in OpenOffice: New Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in openoffice.org package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-calc libreoffice-calc: Installed: 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1:3.5.3-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages 3) What is expected to happen in Writer, Calc, or the Macro Editor is when one opens the Find & Replace window, with Regular Expression checkbox checked, in the Search for drop down put a circumflex in, and the beginning of every paragraph is found. Consulting the LO Wiki and built-in LO help, it is implied that using a circumflex by itself in the find field should match the beginning of a paragraph: http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions 4) What happens instead is nothing is found. WORKAROUND: Notepad++ 6.1.2: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.2.html via WINE. apt-cache policy wine1.5 wine1.5: Installed: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 Candidate: 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 Version table: *** 1.5.4-0ubuntu1~ppa1~precise1+pulse17 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 30 11:36:03 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-4ubuntu2 [modified: var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb] ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/465309/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
