On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:44:06 -0600, Arctic Fidelity wrote: > I'm trying to do a search and replace using regular expressions on a > single selection of cells in OpenOffice.Org 2.0.1. It's not working. :-P I > am working on tab-delimited files, and am trying to insert a string into > the beginning of each of the cells. In all the other programs I use, this > is done by using: > > Search: ^ > Replace: string > > But this claims that there were no results found. > > Instead, I thought I could do this: > > Search: ^(.) > Replace: String \1
You should be able to do so. > > But then I just get huge amounts of "String \1" in each cell, sometimes > only one, sometimes 3 or more occurances of that string into a cell. > That sounds as if you are not using regular expressions. Have you made sure that Regular Expressions and current selection are both checked in the More section? > How can I fix this? I am obviously doing something incorrectly, but I > don't know what. > > - Arctic -- Documentation Co-lead "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.H. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
