Re: [libreoffice-users] using \t in regular expression replace

Hi all,

Brian Barker wrote (07-10-12 16:01)
> At 11:08 07/10/2012 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> > The problem I encountered was that the paragraph breaks was replaced
> > with the characters "\t", not the [tab] (tab) character, no matter if
> > "Regular expressions" were ticked or not. I got the same result when
> > trying to replace with \x09: The paragraph breaks were replaced with
> > the characters "\x09", not the [tab] character.
> >
> > But maybe that's only me, I am not the OP, so feel free to ignore this.
>
> Weirdly that's true: if you search for $ on its own, you can replace the
> paragraph breaks with something else.  The problem is then only that
> "\t" in the "Replace with" box is interpreted as text instead of a
> regular expression.  (Surely that's wrong?)  But you've found the
> solution.  (I spotted this part but didn't latch on to its significance.)

AH yes, that was the only thing that I did not write in my original 
post. Sorry for that.

> With "Regular expressions" ticked, first search for $ and replace with a
> character or string that does not occur in your document - perhaps a
> hash mark?  Then repeat the search (still with "Regular expressions"
> ticked), this time searching for # and replacing with \t.

Of course I used this workaround.
But I wondered if I did something wrong, or missed some special trick to 
replace $ with a <tab> in one run.

> Sorry for previous distraction.  I trust this helps.

No problem of course. Thanks to you & all for the replies.

I think this is worth a bug report/request for enhancement.

Cheers,


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