<snip> But now I realize that it may be possible to use find & replace to > find the next character that is EITHER a paragraph delimiter OR a > space. What regular expression would I use for this? > > To cut to the chase here, what I'm trying to do is create a macro that > will find each URL in turn in a Write document, and change it into a > hyperlink. My idea is to first find http:// and then either a space or > a paragraph delimiter. Then enter a space. This, when done manually, > turns a URL into a hyperlink. > > Thanks, > > Dick >
The Regular Expression (RE) I used was ". *$" without the quotes. That's dot space asterisk dollar. This finds "any character" (the dot), followed by zero or more (the asterisk) spaces (the space) followed by the end of the line (the dollar). If you want "one or more" use a plus sign instead of the asterisk. But this mechanical replacement process does *not* seem to turn the text into a hyperlink - this in my OO 2.2 on Win XP Pro. If you find it does work, please let us know which version of OO and which version of which OS you are using. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
