Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org
In Find&Replace, a regular expression of "^" (without the quotes) never
matches anything. It should match the front of every line.
For example, if you want to comment out a block of code in the Basic macro
editor, it should be possible to
Find ^ in a selection and replace it with "rem " and have "rem " inserted at
the front of all the selected lines.
But ^ alone does not work, and never matches any lines.
The use of of ^ alone to match the start of lines (and, similarly $ for
end-of-lines) has been a fundamental feature of regular expressions in
computer systems since they were first widely used in 1970s Unix. OO
should not deviate.
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
** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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regular expression ^ by itself does not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465309
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