On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 19:22 -0400, Ron Miller wrote:
> Paul_B wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:49:48 -0400, Ron Miller wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have been trying to make Open Office 1.1.4 and now beta 2 of OO 2 find
> >> numerals in plain text. A block of text in paragraph format will
> >>contain single or double digit numbers i.e.
> >> 1then text, 2more text...14additional text etc.
> >>
> >>I need to remove the numbers without changing the text. I have tried
> >>various combinations of [1-0], [:0-1:] without success. Any clues will
> >>be most welcome.
> >>
> >>Thanks Ron Miller in Baltimore
> >
> >
> > You can search for numbers with the string [0-9]{1,2}. The first
> > term represents a range. The second allows one to two instances
> > of the first term - in this case, that is one or two digits.
> >
> > The Replacement string should be left blank.
> >
> > p.
> >
> I may be more obtuse than others, but I can't get this to work. Pasting
> a copy of your exact string in the Find box consistently produces a
> "Search Key not found." error message. The same result is received
> whether I'm finding, finding all, replacing, or replacing all.
>
> Thanks for further light.
Do you have regular expressions enabled (checked) when you do this? I
recall getting similar results when I forget.
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