[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 130480] New: search for regular expressions not usable any more

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130480

            Bug ID: 130480
           Summary: search for regular expressions not usable any more
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.2.8.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: forum+document at home.decotrain.de

Description:
In older versions of Libreoffice the search and replace in Writer could be a
mighty tool to clean up text.
But now it has a complete new syntax and is working so bad that it is not
usable any more.

As example i want to clean a text from the page numbers. Something like
¶
¶
3¶
¶
¶

The expectation is to search for ^$^$^([:digit:]+)$^$^$ and replace it with
nothing. But this does not work!

The only thing that is working to replace the side number with ^([:digit:]+)$
But then it is not possible to replace multiple empty lines.

^$^$ is not working!

^${2} is not working!

^${2,5} is not working!

So this engine is only usable for silly things ...

Steps to Reproduce:
Make a text with standalone page numbers like

¶
¶
3¶
¶
¶

Try to delete them with ^$^$^([:digit:]+)$^$^$

Actual Results:
Does not work

Expected Results:
Normal functionality of an regular expression engine


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.2.8.2
Build-ID: f82ddfca21ebc1e222a662a32b25c0c9d20169ee
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Linux 3.16; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: kde4; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc: CL

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