Thank you again for your help. But I think I can fix my problem without AND for the moment, after all. I'll remember your trick, however
kindest regards 2008/4/13, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 12/04/2008 17:31, Régis POTELLE wrote: > > > Thank you for your quick answer. Using "OR" as you tell me may be > > helpfull. > > For the AND, I'll see later > > > > kindest regards > > > > > > > > > In fact I just thought of a way to do "AND" but the solution is based on a > facility in Writer which may or may not exist in other word processors. As > an example, assume you want to find lines containing "a" and "b" and "c" but > in any order: > 1. Find, using Regular Expressions, ".*a.*". Use "Find All". This will > highlight all the lines containing an "a". > 2. Select "Currently selection only" and Find All ".*b.*". This will leave > highlighted all the lines containing "a" and "b" in either order. > 3. Keep "Current selection only" ticked (checked) and Find All ".*c.*". > Done. Only lines with "a" and "b" and "c", in any order, will remain > highlighted. > > The problem with this method is that, while it will find "abc" or "bac" > or "bca" or ..., it will also find "aqwercghjkb" which has an "a", a "b" > and a "c" within it. This may not be what you want ... > > The RE ".*a.*" means "any number of any character followed by an "a" > followed by any number of any character. Here "any number" includes zero. Of > course the "a" being found can be replaced by any string/RE. > > >snip> > > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England > Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org > > >
