On 30/04/2009 19:49, Brian Barker wrote:
At 12:45 30/04/2009 -0500, Clifton Liles wrote:
I am trying to do a 'find and replace' in OO writer, 3.0.0 OOO300m9
Intel XP. What I want is to replace '(19' with 'tab(19'. When I use
'\t' it simply inserts the '\' 't' in the text, no tab. I also tried
'/t' and 'ctrl-i' nothing works.
As has already been suggested, you need to tick the "Regular
expressions" box hidden behind the More Options button in order for \t
to be interpreted as you need. But that creates a separate problem:
you will find that you can no longer appear to search for "(19". That
is because parentheses are used in regular expressions to define a
reference. Since you do not want this, you will have to "escape" the
open parenthesis character by preceding it by a backslash: then it
will be interpreted as just the character it is.
Search for \(19 and replace with: \t(19 or, more simply, \t& .
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
Hmmm. You are right but I don't think you should be ;-) The fact that
there is no closing parenthesis *should* mean that the opening
parenthesis is not special i.e that it doesn't define the start of a
reference. However, I have to admit that Notepad++ behaves the same way
as Writer so at least Writer is in good company.
Well spotted and thanks.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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