Bernd Eilers wrote: <snip> > 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
