As far as I can tell, from the documentation and my own experiments, OOo
does not save "backreferences" from the search pattern to use in the
replacement pattern.
Even in a Regular Expression *search*, the *replacement* expression is
not a regular expression, it's a simple text string.
I've been meaning to file this as a Request For Enhancement for ages.
But I haven't.
Dennis Marks wrote:
I'm trying to to a find and replace using regular expressions. I have
sentences in the format "nn:nn xxxxxxxxx". I want to replace it with
"nn:nn tabcharacter xxxxxxxx". Example "1:34 Now is the time" replace
with "1:34 tabcharacter Now is the time".
I use "([0-9]+:[0-9]+ )" in the find and "\1\t" in the replace.
The result is "\1 tabcharacter xxxxxxxx".
\1 should refer to the parenthesis info in the find but it does not. Why?
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