Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer] Regular expressions

W dniu 2013-01-09 07:17, Brian Barker pisze:
> At 19:58 08/01/2013 +0100, Gordom Noname wrote:
> > I would appreciate your help with the regular expressions. I have a
> > document consisting of hundreds of lines. A small sample is here:
> >
> > Set:   01SA34509
> > 0109SA
> > 011017B
> > 01020207B
> > 010902B
> > 01090002
> > 011007B
> > 01090001
> > 090110
> > Set:   0134501
> > 011101
> > 01110102
> > 01110103
> > 080908
> > Set:   0111679SE
> > 0111SE
> >
> > I need to delete all text except these lines started with word "Set".
> > If I use "set:.+" regular expression, all these lines, that should be
> > kept, are selected. I cant find a way to reverse this selection. I
> > tried "[^set:.+].+" and "[^(set:.+)].+" but they don't work. Could you
> > please give me any clues?
>
> I think this is fairly simple.  I'm assuming that your "lines" are
> actually separate paragraphs, in fact: that they are separated by
> paragraph breaks, not line breaks, that is.
>
> o Using Find & Replace with "Regular expressions" ticked, search for
> ^Set and click Find All. This will select just those words, where they
> occur at the start of a line, not the whole lines.
> o Click the down-arrow at the right of the Apply Style window in the
> Formatting toolbar, and select some (paragraph) style different from the
> style of your text (perhaps Heading?).  Since this is a paragraph style,
> it will apply to the whole of each relevant line (paragraph), not just
> the selected occurrences of the word "Set".
> o Back in the Find & Replace dialogue, click "Search for Styles", choose
> your original style (perhaps Default?) in the "Search for" box, and
> click Find All.
> o Press Delete to remove all the unwanted lines.
> o Tick "Regular expressions" again, and search for ^$ - replacing with
> nothing.  Click Replace All.  This removes the empty paragraphs left by
> the previous process.
> o Go to Edit | Select All (or press Ctrl+A) and use the Apply Style
> window again to reset your paragraph style appropriately (to Default?).
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker

It seems to work indeed. Thank you very much :-). Regards,

gordom

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