At 16:24 29/06/2009 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I can easily search backwards for Date, but I can't figure out the
syntax for the Find operation to search and select Date and then to
the next instance of an empty paragraph. According to the
documentation the following in the Find box should work, but it does not:
Date.^$
There are two problems here, I think.
o First, the "." matches only a single arbitrary character: in order
to match a number of characters, you need to follow it by either an
asterisk or a plus sign, as appropriate.
o I think regular expressions in Writer will deal only with material
within a single paragraph. If that is so, the best you can do is to
match the word "Date" and the rest of the paragraph containing
it. (I hope I'm wrong about this!) Certainly .* or .+ will not
match text across either line breaks or paragraph breaks, as the help
text makes clear.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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