On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 18:30 -0600, Knight, Jon wrote: > In Writer, I'd like to Search & Replace all occurrences of data enclosed in > parentheses. I'm able to do so in MS Word by using "\(*\)" as a regular > expression, without the double-quotes of course. I have read the regular > expression section in the OO help, but nothing I try is successful. I > thought that "\([:print:]\)" would work, but it doesn't.
Try: "\(.*\)" The * means zero or more occurrences of the preceding "thing", so in your case you were searching for zero or more open brackets immediately followed by a close bracket. (It was finding the close brackets - right?). The . means any character, so .* means any group of characters. But remember that it is "greedy" so that if there is more than one bracketed expression in a paragraph it will find from the start of the first bracketed expression to the end of the last. To get around this problem try: "\([^(]*\)" This searches for an open bracket, anything that isn't an open bracket followed by a close bracket. Thanks, Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
