To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59185 Issue #:|59185 Summary:|Regular expressions searhc replace may result in |severe data loss Component:|Word processor Version:|OOo 2.0.1 Platform:|All URL:| OS/Version:|Windows XP Status:|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard:| Keywords:| Resolution:| Issue type:|DEFECT Priority:|P1 Subcomponent:|editing Assigned to:|mru Reported by:|ftack
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 10 09:13:21 -0800 2005 ------- Steps to reproduce the problem * Open the attached doc "longissue.odt". It is a 33 page doc, with blank lines created using two paragraph breaks, and single paragraph breaks after single sentences. Note at the very end of the document a line: "This is the last line. In the original doc, the above three paragraphs were repeated 100 times." 100 is counted using a Numer range field. Typically, a more advanced user may want to clean up this document, turning the two consecutive paragraph breaks into one paragraph break, and removing the enters between the lines to combine them to one paragraph. The following procedure works for short pieces of text, but on a moderately size doc such as this, it causes severe data loss. * Find "$" replace with "!token!", regular expressions checked. As yet another issue with regex, not all paragraph marks end up being replaced by !token!. Repeat the find/replace operation hittng "replace all" again. the search now takes significantly longer, and the wakefull eye already sees that by now document already is missing its end and is corruptes, so we could already stop here. However, usually, one would notice this only later. * Now Find "!Token!!Token!" replace with "!para!", regex not checked to later on replace all two consecutive paragraph breaks with one. * Replace "!Token!" with " " (space) regex not checked. * Replace "!para!" with "\n" regex checked to insert paragraph breaks again. Note that we are left with 15 pages only, the last line cut of. Note also that the Fields have been corrupted: "Instance x" counts to 10, then further on the fields are removed. This is an issue resulting in severe data loss and document corruption which therefore should have a high priority. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
