On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:06 +0200, Samuel Murray wrote: > G'day everyone > > I'm struggling with an OOo regex find/replace operation. Basically, I > want to find this: > > This is a house. > > and replace with with this: > > (<This is a house.>)=(<This is a house.>) > > In which the original is the only text on the paragraph (in other words, > it follows and precedes a paragraphbreak). At first I thought that I > would have to find: > > ([paragraph mark])([all text])([paragraph mark]) > > and replace it with: > > \1\\(<\2\>\)\=\(\<\2\>\)\3 > > but I can figure out what is the OOo regex character for a paragraph break. > > Any ideas? >
Help is not the clearest on this in Help > Contents > Index > Search term > regular expressions;list of What it should say is what is in the user guide as follows: "This symbol represents the paragraph mark for use in a regular expression. For example, using $ will only find the search term if it appears at the end of a paragraph. So, if one searches for, say, Peter at the end of a paragraph, enter Peter$ in the Search for box. Special characters (for example, blank spaces and character-anchored frames) at the end of a paragraph are ignored." -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
