K-H, Found this: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90025 and apparently it is still an issue in as much as project I was working on at the time required substitution in an html page indexing a series of other documents by their URL....
So the bug is still present, but only presents itself in specific limited situations. under OOo it was easy to add or update a bug - not so sure with LO. On 3/8/11 1:44 AM, Karl-Heinz Bellgardt wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On 07.03.2011 15:31, Marc Grober wrote: > I was just working with regex in LO 3.3.1 (osx) and was > unsuccessful with with placeholders (the placeholder was placed in > text). I found two different bits of documentation (internal and > wiki) that were not totally consistent and examples did not work. > Ran out of time on underlying project so did not resolve what issue > was. This was on my "list" to address but have yet to get to it.... > Can you confirm both styles of placeholders work and offer example > that worked for you? > > I hope not to have caused some confusion, because I shouldn't have > called "&" a "place holder". Is is a "(back-)reference" to the > search result, but [:digit:] is a place holder. Here is a somewhat > artificial example using both. > > The original text: > The cat never is blue with gray. > This car almost is green like a leaf. > A dog still is black same as coal. > > Search string (There is a blank after "is"): > ([:alpha:]*[:space:])([:alpha:]*[:space:])([:alpha:]*[:space:])is > ([:alpha:]*) > > Replace: > $1little $4 $2was $3 > > Text after replace: > The little blue cat was never with gray. > This little green car was almost like a leaf. > A little black dog was still same as coal. > > I hope it can give some ideas. > > Karl-Heinz > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
