[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128929] Find & Replace malfunctions upon using "Replace All" with regards to ellipses.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128929

V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
             Status|NEEDINFO                    |RESOLVED

--- Comment #2 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
OP replied in PM

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Thank you. Unchecking "Regular Expressions" fixed it.
What is the purpose of "Regular Expressions" if all it does is create problems?
</clip>


Simple answer is that for the Find & Replace dialog, providing the ICU lib
based regular expressions [1][2] gives a much richer search capability than can
be efficiently implemented within our edit engine and GUI widgets. It is not
always needed (and so can be disabled), but when used is very powerful. Only
expense is the terse syntax, and some confusion among users with different
behavior when active/inactive.

=-ref-=
[1] http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expression_engines

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