Ari Hauksson wrote:
Greetings, Sirs/Madames
Thank you for OpenOffice. One of the best features in OO is the ability
to search with regular expressions. Combining searches based on
formating and regular expressions is extremely powerful. But it is not
possible to use the results from these searches when replacing text.
What is for example needed when converting a word document to HTML code.
More advanced RegExp engines do have this capability (capturing and
grouping).
My suggestion is to upgrade the RegExp enigine to more advanced one (
that has the ability of capturing and grouping).
The regexp is yet another reason to use OpenOffice instead of
MS-Office. With more advanced Regular Expression engine, (advanced)
users would see MS-Office as a much weaker option.
With regards, Ari Hauksson
It is possible to use Python with its search and replace capabilities
(including backreferencing - capturing, grouping) to edit a document
through the API. Probably there are still problems with search and
replace across paragraphs.
Maybe one needs to consider just what search and replace functions one
would expect on a word-processor and how that requirement would differ
from a powerful text editor with regex.
Robert
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