2008/12/9 Jerry Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
<snip> > > >> Secondly, I quote from OOo's Help: "You can only search for regular >> expressions within the same paragraph. That is, you cannot search for one >> term in a paragraph and a different term in the next paragraph." >> >> <snip> > > > I honestly don't understand the Help paragraph you reference. It seems to > imply that I cannot search across an entire document. > > <snip> No, it doesn't imply that. It says that when you use a Regular Expression (RE) you can't specify a pattern that spans a paragraph boundary. So, for example, if I want to search for ABCD there is no way to specify that I want to include instances where, e.g. the AB occurs at the end of one paragraph and the CD occurs at the beginning of the next. In REs, the "$" special character does mean "paragraph mark". It means that the preceding pattern must only be considered "found" if it occurs at the end of a paragraph -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
