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]

Reply via email to