Yes, I'm pretty sure Regular Expression was checked. The example I gave in the bug report is a real example.
Does the example work for you? If so, then there must be some other state setting somewhere which affects this. The reason I'm sure Regular Expression was checked is that the "(...)" in the search field matched any three characters. If REs were not enabled, it would have only matched literal paren+3dots+paren. -Jim ----- Original Message ---- From: WeatherGod <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, October 30, 2009 4:20:09 PM Subject: [Bug 465323] Re: $1 etc. do not work in Replace of Find & Replace Just to be sure, did you check off "Regular expression" under the More Options pane? -- $1 etc. do not work in Replace of Find & Replace https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465323 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org In Find & Replace, the use of (...) in the Find expression is supposed to create a reference which can be used in the Replace expression via $1 ($2 for the second (...) etc.). At least that is how I read the OO docs on Regular Expressions. It is also how regular expressions work in many other programs. However, using $1 in the Replace field just puts in a litera "$1" instead of substituting the text from the "Search for" expression. EXAMPLE: If the text contains "My dog has fleas", then setting the Search expression to "My (...) has fleas" and the Replace expression to "My $1 is smart" Should change the text to "My dog is smart". However, the result is "My $1 is smart". ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 30 11:44:35 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 -- $1 etc. do not work in Replace of Find & Replace https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465323 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
