noop-3 wrote:
>
> On 03/01/2007 04:18 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>
>> Sorry but I don't understand. On my Win XP Pro/SP2 system with OO
>> 2.1finding and replacing single quotes simply isn't a problem; I don't
>> even
>> have to use regular expressions. The only time I'd need a regular
>> expression
>> (RE) is if I want to find/replace single quotes *only* when they appear
>> as
>> the first (or last) character of a cell - or for some other reason I'd
>> want
>> to use RE's anyway. To find a leading quote the RE to use is "^'"
>> (circumflex, quote) where the circumflex says "at the beginning" and the
>> quote says "quote".
>>
>> On my UK keyboard there are two possible "single quote" characters. the
>> first looks like '''''''' (really an apostrophe I suppose, a short
>> *vertical* mark) and the other looks like ``````` (really a grave accent,
>> slanting top left to bottom right). My remarks above about
>> find/replace/REs
>> apply to both.
>>
>> Please someone explain what I'm missing here.
>>
>
> Doesn't do that on any of the linux systems that I have. I'll bring up
> an XPP system in a few days & give it a try.
>
>
Interesting. There is one answer for Windows and another for Linux. Fiddle
faddle.
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