On 03.01.2012 19:13, RGB ES wrote:
Sorry for reactivating this old thread, but I have a question about the new regexp engine: it seems that some regular expressions do not work any more on AOO test builds. For example, on OOo 3.3 you can use \<[0-9]+[,|\.][0-9]*\> to find decimal numbers no matter if the decimal separator is a colon or a dot (the expression will find 125.25 and 1253,586) but this expression do not work on AOO builds.
Following up myself, AOO will both find strings like "<125.25>" and "<1253,586>" for the example regexp you provided, but it will not find "125.25" and "1253,586".
http://www.regular-expressions.info/refflavors.html mentions the \< and \> that are used in your regexp example as non-standard extensions to the syntax. With using the new engine we are closer to the reference http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html
Herbert
