Re: [libreoffice-users] Find all within brackets

On 11/09/2020 01:38, Ade Malsasa Akbar wrote:
> Interesting question, Seamas. I found a reference here
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/27225148 and tried that on LibreOffice
> Writer 6.4 and it seems it works:
>
> (?<=\[).+?(?=\])
>
> It can find your "[thus]" without the brackets.
I've tried the various regex in this thread and this last one (above) produces an unusual result 
for me.

In the Find and Replace dialogue, if I press "Find Next" it finds the next occurence and highlights only the contents inside the 
brackets as expected. But the odd behaviour comes when I press "Replace" - it does not replace the contents but just finds the 
next occurrence.  In other words, the "Replace" button acts exactly the same as the "Find Next" button.

If I select "Replace All", it does just that.  I usually avoid the 'replace all' function because 
of the possibility of unexpected consequences, at least until after I have used the 'Find Next' and 'Replace' 
sequence a few times.

For the other regex in this thread, the "Find Next" and "Replace" buttons behave correctly.

I tried many times also using the alternative expression mentioned in the link above,

||

|(?<=\[)[^]]+(?=\])  ,|and the result was always the same - in my LibreOffice Writer 6.4.5.2.

Philip




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