Re: [libreoffice-users] Find and replace — regular expressions

On 27 October 2013 20:10, jomali <jomali3945@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 7:39 PM, T. R. Valentine <trvalentine@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Does the Find & Replace dialog box allow backreferences in the
> > 'Replace with' field?
> >
> > (I'm having trouble getting it to work.)
> Per the LO help, use $1 in the replace box, rather than \1.

Thanks, but this is removing the number. I want to retain the numbers.

In the LO help that I see, $ limits searches to items at end of
paragraphs. Where is the reference that it functions as a
backreference?


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T. R. Valentine
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