To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70554 Issue #|70554 Summary|Regular expression searching/replacing line breaks is |broken Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.0.4 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|Windows 2000 Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|editing Assigned to|mru Reported by|gudmund
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 18 05:00:27 -0700 2006 ------- Using the search & replace dialogue with regular expressions to find and/or replace CRLF's doesn't work (CR = carriage return, LF = line feed). Using \n for searching only finds LF's, including several consecutive LF's, but (predictably) not CRLF's. Inconsistently, using \n for inserting/replacing something *with* an LF, instead inserts a CRLF. This includes inserting several consecutive CRLF's. Using any combination (that I've managed to test so far) using $ to search & replace CRLF's, can only handle replacing *one*, the first, CRLF, not many consecutive. The standard regular expression \r for searching and/or replacing CR's (for some reason often used for CRLF's too) doesn't work at all. This all makes things like e. g. searching and replacing a string followed by three CRLF's with some string followed by one *LF* impossible ATM. Not being able to perform arbitrary search & replace operations on any types of texts in formats supported by OOo with the means delivered in OOo, i. e. regular expressions, renders OOo useless for many professional purposes without external helper applications that *can* perform such standard operations, i. e. MS Office or more highly specialized (read: non-trivial) tools. This defeats the purpose of having OOo at all. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
