2013/1/9 gordom <gord...@wp.pl>: > W dniu 2013-01-09 07:17, Brian Barker pisze: > >> At 19:58 08/01/2013 +0100, Gordom Noname wrote: >>> >>> I would appreciate your help with the regular expressions. I have a >>> document consisting of hundreds of lines. A small sample is here: >>> >>> Set: 01SA34509 >>> 0109SA >>> 011017B >>> 01020207B >>> 010902B >>> 01090002 >>> 011007B >>> 01090001 >>> 090110 >>> Set: 0134501 >>> 011101 >>> 01110102 >>> 01110103 >>> 080908 >>> Set: 0111679SE >>> 0111SE >>> >>> I need to delete all text except these lines started with word "Set". >>> If I use "set:.+" regular expression, all these lines, that should be >>> kept, are selected. I cant find a way to reverse this selection. I >>> tried "[^set:.+].+" and "[^(set:.+)].+" but they don't work. Could you >>> please give me any clues? >> >> >> I think this is fairly simple. I'm assuming that your "lines" are >> actually separate paragraphs, in fact: that they are separated by >> paragraph breaks, not line breaks, that is. >> >> o Using Find & Replace with "Regular expressions" ticked, search for >> ^Set and click Find All. This will select just those words, where they >> occur at the start of a line, not the whole lines. >> o Click the down-arrow at the right of the Apply Style window in the >> Formatting toolbar, and select some (paragraph) style different from the >> style of your text (perhaps Heading?). Since this is a paragraph style, >> it will apply to the whole of each relevant line (paragraph), not just >> the selected occurrences of the word "Set". >> o Back in the Find & Replace dialogue, click "Search for Styles", choose >> your original style (perhaps Default?) in the "Search for" box, and >> click Find All. >> o Press Delete to remove all the unwanted lines. >> o Tick "Regular expressions" again, and search for ^$ - replacing with >> nothing. Click Replace All. This removes the empty paragraphs left by >> the previous process. >> o Go to Edit | Select All (or press Ctrl+A) and use the Apply Style >> window again to reset your paragraph style appropriately (to Default?). >> >> I trust this helps. >> >> Brian Barker >> >> >> > > It seems to work indeed. Thank you very much :-). Regards, > > gordom
This worked for me with your example lines a minute ago: Ctrl+h (or whatever method you prefer for opening the Search and Replace dialogue). ☒ Regular expressions Search for: ^[^S][^e][^t].*$ Replace with: (leave empty) Click Replace All Search for: ^$ Leave everything else as is Click Replace All. Done. The funny thing is that the last part didn't work for me maybe ten minutes ago, but I must have done something slightly different that time… So, in short terms: 1. Replace all ^[^S][^e][^t].*$ with nothing (regular expressions on). 2. Replace all ^$ with nothing (regular expressions still on). Done. Step 1 would also erase lines starting with ”set” and ”SET”, so if you want to keep all possible combinations for the word ”set”, you should rather try: ^[^Ss][^Ee][^Tt].*$ I didn't try that myself, but it should work. There is always Undo if it doesn't… Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
