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

El 08/10/12 9:03, Cor Nouws escribió:
> 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,

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/alternative-dialog-find-replace-for-writer

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