https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153212
Bug ID: 153212
Summary: "regular expression in the Replace box" makes no sense
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Documentation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.5/ro/text/shared/01/02100001.html has this
phrase:
> regular expression "$1ful" in the Replace box
This phrase makes *absolutely* no sense, and is creating additional confusion.
By definition, *regular expressions* are *matching* patterns, which are used
when *searching*. There is a related replacement string syntax, but replacement
strings are *not* regular expressions, and their syntax is necessarily
different from regular expression syntax.
Users tend to expect that *regular expression syntax* would work in replacement
field; and this incorrect phrase reinforces this misconception. It should be
changed to something like simple
> "$1ful" in the Replace box
Additionally, it would make sense to separate *all* the discussion of what is
legal in replacement to a separate table (including, e.g., related pieces of \n
and \t), to emphasize that they have *different* syntaxes.
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