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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 7 05:22:59 +0000 2007 ------- What I actually wrote in the regex HowTo http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressio ns_in_Writer was: "Please be careful when using the Replace All button. There are a few rare occasions when this will give unexpected results. For example to remove the first character of every paragraph you might 'Search for' ^. and 'Replace with' nothing; clicking 'Replace All' now will wipe out *all* your text, instead of just the first character of each paragraph. Issue 82473 discusses this. The workaround is to 'Find All', then 'Replace'; perhaps the safest way is not to use the 'Replace All' button at all with regular expressions." I'm afraid it does make OOo regex look rather silly... but the point of the HowTo is to describe what regex actually do - because people keep re- discovering all the woes for themselves. At some point someone will have to bite the bullet and tackle the Great Regex Rethink - if that is likely to be soon then work on the existing code might be wasted - so that must influence any decision to work on this issue now. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
