Re: [libreoffice-users] regular expressions

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On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 14:59 -0900, Marc Grober wrote:
> K-H,
>
> Found this: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90025
> and apparently it is still an issue in as much as project I was working
> on at the time required substitution in an html page indexing a series
> of other documents by their URL....
>
> So the bug is still present, but only presents itself in specific
> limited situations.
>
> under OOo it was easy to add or update a bug - not so sure with LO.
>
> On 3/8/11 1:44 AM, Karl-Heinz Bellgardt wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > On 07.03.2011 15:31, Marc Grober wrote:
> >  I was just working with regex in LO 3.3.1 (osx) and was
> > unsuccessful with with placeholders (the placeholder was placed in
> > text). I found two different bits of documentation (internal and
> > wiki) that were not totally consistent and examples did not work.
> > Ran out of time on underlying project so did not resolve what issue
> > was. This was on my "list" to address but have yet to get to it....
> > Can you confirm both styles of placeholders work and offer example
> > that worked for you?
> >
> > I hope not to have caused some confusion, because I shouldn't have
> > called "&" a "place holder". Is is a "(back-)reference" to the
> > search result, but [:digit:] is a place holder. Here is a somewhat
> > artificial example using both.
> >
> > The original text:
> >      The cat never is blue with gray.
> >      This car almost is green like a leaf.
> >      A dog still is black same as coal.
> >
> > Search string (There is a blank after "is"):
> > ([:alpha:]*[:space:])([:alpha:]*[:space:])([:alpha:]*[:space:])is
> > ([:alpha:]*)
> >
> > Replace:
> > $1little $4 $2was $3
> >
> > Text after replace:
> >      The little blue cat was never with gray.
> >      This little green car was almost like a leaf.
> >      A little black dog was still same as coal.
> >
> > I hope it can give some ideas.
> >
> > Karl-Heinz


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