Bernd Eilers wrote:
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> Sorry, but such "standard libraries" do work on ASCII Text Strings and
> that´s just not what we have here so there would have been no way to
> just simply use a standard library only. There would have to be
> something done new which works on full-formatted text and OOo Writers
> internal data structures just as similar and close as possible to what
> users already know from other use cases of regular expressions. It´s
> not reinventing the wheel it´s just that you can not use something
> that was designed for a bike directly on a car. No offence intended
> also. 
<snip>
Ah. The fact that the data aren't ASCII text strings is obvious but had escaped 
me nevertheless. I sit corrected.

Harold Fuchs
London, England

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