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drking
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 Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Regular Expressions / regex HowTo |
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Just a note for those searching the archives for help with regex:
I've written a HowTo for regular expressions:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer
I've ploughed through about 40 issues (an excruciating experience) and have tried to describe OOo regular expressions as they are, rather than as they might be.
Being a wiki, the HowTo is open for anyone to edit and contribute to, if they wish.
I hope it is useful |
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foxcole
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Bhikkhu Pesala
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Good work. Added to my bookmarks. 
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acknak
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Wow! Yes--excellent work.
The only suggestion I have is to add live links for the issues, just to make it a little easier to follow-up there. There is some good background in some of them and people may want to check to see if the status changes.
I like huwg's suggestion of including some "recipes" for common tasks.
Nice! Thanks very much for putting that all together. |
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JohnV
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Yes, very nice.
I didn't know line breaks were treated like paragraph breaks for purposes of "^." and ".$" or the like. |
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Devudu
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:11 am Post subject: |
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Nice1
Good that you added the back reference issue in "Replace" box. |
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drking
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the kind words.
I've made the suggested changes (the Calc example will go into the Calc regex HowTo, but that's still a work in progress) |
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