** Summary changed: - regular expression ^ by itself does not work + regular expression ^ by itself does not work in Find & Replace of Basic code
** Description changed: 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. + matches anything in the Basic macro editor (it reportedly does work in + document text). "^" 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 + 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 -- regular expression ^ by itself does not work in Find & Replace of Basic code https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465309 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
