[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 127796] New: Malfunction of the "Find" operation with regular expressions.

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            Bug ID: 127796
           Summary: Malfunction of the "Find" operation with regular
                    expressions.
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.2.7.1 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: yestok at yestok.pl

Description:
In my opinion, string search using regular expressions does not work correctly
when searching for strings of any characters contained in two bounding
characters.
Let BOS be the initial delimiter of the search string and EOS be the final
delimiter.
Regular expression in the form of "BOS.*EOS" finds a string containing the last
instance of EOS. In this situation, you cannot correctly recognize the strings
sought in such a structure:
"string1 BOS string2 EOS string3 BOS string4 EOS string5"
In the example above, there are two strings matching the match condition, but
the search operation finds only one, terminated with a second EOS tag.
This causes problems when searching inside paragraphs multiple instances of
strings enclosed in parentheses or enclosed in quotation marks.
In addition, the new REGEX function in Calc cannot be properly used to find,
for example, the fourth occurrence of <tr>. * </tr> sequence obtained from the
WEBSEVICE function

Steps to Reproduce:
nothing

Actual Results:
nothing

Expected Results:
nothing


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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