Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with find & replace.

On 17/03/2022 08:34, Dave Barton wrote:
> On 16/03/2022 18:27, Brian Barker wrote:
> > At 16:29 16/03/2022 +0000, Dave Barton wrote:
> > > I am looking for a find & replace solution in Writer, where there is a
> > > blank space as the last character of a paragraph (eg. last word
> > > <space><LF><CR>). In the original OOo and most of the text editors I
> > > use the simple solution that worked/works perfectly is: Find =
> > > <space>$ Replace = $ (Note: I use <space> here to represent a single
> > > space character). This does not work in LO Writer, so I am forced to
> > > fiddle around copying from LO and pasting into AOO, running F&R in
> > > AOO, then copy/paste back again. Any pointers would be welcome.
> > I'm surprised that exactly what you say works in OpenOffice. Don't you
> > need to find space-dollar, just as you describe, but to replace with
> > nothing? Replacing with dollar will surely insert an unwanted dollar
> > character?
> >
> > Or have you forgotten to click "Other options" in the Find and Replace
> > dialogue and to tick "Regular expressions"?
> >
> > I trust this helps.
> >
> > Brian Barker
> Hi Brian,
>
> After 22 Years of you and I being involved in this project, I genuinely
> bow to your superior knowledge in this area. However, I do assure you
> that the convoluted LO->AOO->LO  nonsense works for me, exactly as it
> did in the days of OOo.
>
> No, I have not forgotten to click "Other options in the Find and Replace
> dialogue and to tick "Regular expressions", please see my screen capture:
> https://www.mediafire.com/view/80552jkp3qw6o8x/F%2526R_LO.png/file
>
> Here is a very simplistic file illustrating the <space><CR><LF>
> paragraph endings:
> https://www.mediafire.com/file/vmixa9r4dhjpc9e/F%2526R_LO.odt/file
>
> Version: 7.3.1.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
> Build ID: a69ca51ded25f3eefd52d7bf9a5fad8c90b87951
> CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: default; VCL: win
> Locale: es-ES (en_IE); UI: en-US
> Calc: threaded
>
> If you can please show me where I am going wrong, I would be extremely
> grateful.
>
> Dave Barton
May be this is sorted and I have received the emails out of order, but 
assuming you just want to remove the trailing space from each line, both 
Johnny's and Michael's methods work for me on your sample file.

Find= [:space:]{1,}$
Replace= empty

Find= <space>$
Replace= empty

Use regular expression= checked
Steve


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