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To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:42 PM
Subject: [users] question about the use of regular expression [:digit:]

> Sir, Madam,
> 
> I'm working for the Taxes Services in France, and I'm using version
> 2.1 of Openoffice.org. Here is my problem: 
> 
> I've found in the help box of regular expressions the opportunity of
> searching for digits by means of [:digit:] expression. 
> 
> But it doesn't seem to work. Openoffice doesn't find such an
> expression in my whole text, whether I work on spreadsheet or word
> processing.  
> 
> Do I have to insert my data as shown below, or am I in the wrong way ?
> 
> I thank you in advance
> 
> Best regards

You seem to have found a bug. Instead of using "[:digit:]", please try "[0-9]". 
This seems to work.

Please register your finding as an issue on the OO web site.


Harold Fuchs
London, England

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