Victor Bien wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
Hi,
Victor Bien wrote:
I switched to regular expression mode and typed:
(^$)&&(^$) (^$) && (^$) in the search box but it doesn't work.
Leaving the parentheses out doesn't work either. Then I found that
for even one blank line:
(^$) doesn't work although it does in StarOffice 5.0 So OO's 2.0.3
Help saying "use parenthesis" is not accurate if the parenthesis
doesn't even work for one line.
the regular expression code was changed between StarOffice 5 and the
first OpenOffice.org version. So you cannot use all the same regular
expressions.
The application help of OOo tries to give a complete list of "regular
expressions". If you feel comfortable using them, please write down
some useful examples and submit your findings to
documentation.openoffice.org, so that all users can learn a bit more.
I would be happy to do that when I get something to work. All the
actual examples given in the help work except the advice right at the
bottom don't; that is about placing search criteria inside parentheses
when AND and OR operators are to be included. The advice seems to
suggest the use of the Unix && or || operators. But as I posted when
the parentheses are used the basic search functionality is lost and
also the Unix operators don't seem to be recognised.
My understanding is that regex does not work in OpenOffice as it should,
which is a bit of a disincentive to master the art.
There is a website dedicated to the subject, which may be helpful:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/
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