On 03/01/2007 04:18 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > Sorry but I don't understand. On my Win XP Pro/SP2 system with OO > 2.1finding and replacing single quotes simply isn't a problem; I don't > even > have to use regular expressions. The only time I'd need a regular expression > (RE) is if I want to find/replace single quotes *only* when they appear as > the first (or last) character of a cell - or for some other reason I'd want > to use RE's anyway. To find a leading quote the RE to use is "^'" > (circumflex, quote) where the circumflex says "at the beginning" and the > quote says "quote". > > On my UK keyboard there are two possible "single quote" characters. the > first looks like '''''''' (really an apostrophe I suppose, a short > *vertical* mark) and the other looks like ``````` (really a grave accent, > slanting top left to bottom right). My remarks above about find/replace/REs > apply to both. > > Please someone explain what I'm missing here. >
Doesn't do that on any of the linux systems that I have. I'll bring up an XPP system in a few days & give it a try. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
