[libreoffice-users] Re: using \t in regular expression replace
Am 08.10.2012 09:03, Cor Nouws wrote: Of course I used this workaround. But I wondered if I did something wrong, or missed some special trick to replace $ with a tab in one run. The $ does not match any character. It matches a position. You may think of the position where the bar cursor blinks when you navigate behind last character of a paragraph. Likewise, the ^ represents the position before the first character of a paragraph. The paragraph break between the 2 positions is unmatchable. \ and \ represent the positions in front of the first or behind the last character of a word respectively. \n in the regex search field matches a line break (Shift+Enter in Writer, Ctrl+Enter in Calc). In the replace field the \n represents a paragraph break. It is a long standing and highly irritating issue that replacing \n with \n replaces line breaks with paragraph breaks. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: using \t in regular expression replace
At 12:09 08/10/2012 +0200, Andreas Säger wrote: The $ does not match any character. It matches a position. That's what I understood too. But, contrary to this, searching for $ *does* match the paragraph break (whether or not it is supposed to). Strangely, though, \t in the Replace with field is then not interpreted properly. Hence the need for the workaround. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
