2007/3/4, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
My point was that there seems to have been a whole debate about how RE's don't work when replacing apostrophes, but (a) they do and (b) replacing them doesn't require REs except under unusual circumstances. What's your point? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
I don't know if there is some kind of point in my case, I just didn't see the debate. Maybe it is because I am not very good with the English language, or maybe I look differently at the situation. To me it seemed like the OP asked how to get rid of the ' when it appeared as the first character in a cell, because ordinary search & replace couldn't find it. Someone mentioned regular expressions, which seemed to work for everyone: Just replace the contents of all cells in a range with their original content, and it worked since ' is not recognized if it's the first character: Search for .* Replace with & Regular expressions: On Someone also pointed out that this also works: Search for . Replace with & Regular expressions: On Another person pointed out that an issue has been closed concerning this "problem". Obviously this behaviour is not a bug and there is a way to get rid of the leading '. As far as I can see, no one said anything about that there should be a problem to find a ', unless it's the first character in a cell. Someone used the search & replace settings mentioned above for a few strings: '123, 4'56, Abc' and "789. Only '123 was changed, which was expected for everyone. The only debate I could see was wether it is a bug, that regular expressions are needed to find a leading '. Some people thought it was a bug that the leading ' couldn't be found without involving regular expressions. I don't know if this is a point or not, but that's what the situation looked like from my point of view. Maybe I just missed some parts of the "debate", even though I re-read all posts in this thread, trying to find that debate, I don't know. Sorry for being somewhat out of topic here. =) I hope I didn't offend someone, that was not my intention anyway. Johnny Andersson
