Re: [libreoffice-users] Find Replace first character broken?

Sorry about the lack of clarity.

I am opening a 'csv' document in Writer.

When using "Find and Replace" with "Regular Expression" checked and 
"Search for" using characters "^.".
I click on <Find Next> button.  With cursor on position 1,1 of document, 
it finds and highlights the first position character.
The misbehavior begins now.  Clicking on the <Find Next> button 
increments to the next character, not the next line 1st position.

I have also discovered that if I "Find and Replace" with "Regular 
Expression" checked and "Search for" using characters "^." but have 
"Backwards" checked, it works correctly.  That is to say it goes to the 
last line in the document, and repeated clicking on <Find Next> button 
goes to and highlights the line above at the first character.

I did download "Alternative Find & Replace for Writer v1.4 12/2013".  It 
should not effect the standard "Find and Replace". It also behaves as 
described above.

The last version it was working in correctly was probably 4.3, but I 
really don't know.

Away till Monday, so cannot reply till then.

Thanks

PS: replied to Piet because Brians' was not "reply to list".



On 5/7/2015 10:53 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:
>
>   > LibreOffice Version: 4.4.2.2
>   > Build ID: c4c7d32d0d49397cad38d62472b0bc8acff48dd6
>   > Locale: en_US
>   >
>   > Windows 7 Professional SVC Pack 1 on Intel.64 bit.
>   >
>   > I had recorded some macro's that I use for file cleaning that went nuts.
>   >
>   > Then I noticed that using Find for the first character ^. was only
>   > advancing through each character after finding the the first character.
>   >
>   > Can some else confirm?
>   >
> Your description is not very clear. Do you happen to have 'regular expressions' selected in the 
> Find and Replace dialog?


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