[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 127174] New: Search dialog doesn't support "whole word only" option

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127174

            Bug ID: 127174
           Summary: Search dialog doesn't support "whole word only" option
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.3.0.2 rc
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: eyalroz at technion.ac.il

When searching for an expression in a worksheet, I can search for it as a
substring, as the whole cell contents, or as a regular expression. That's good,
but there's a missing option: Whole-word search. Many editing applications have
this - and LO Writer has it, even, but LO calc doesn't.

This feature is important when searching for cell references, e.g. H1 : You
don't want to get the results for H10, H11, H12 and so on.

Now, it's true that you can achieve the same with a regex search, but then
you'd have to remember the syntax for word-boundary (which is different in
different regex implementations, e.g. vim vs bash). Plus, few users know what
regular expressions are and how to use them.

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