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title="UNCONFIRMED - EDITING: find/replace regular expressions: \n has 2 meanings, it shouldn't"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108256">108256</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>EDITING: find/replace regular expressions: \n has 2 meanings, it shouldn't
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.1.6.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Writer
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>akerblom@flopcat.org
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<pre>In find/replace, when the "regular expressions" options box is checked, the
product intentionally has "\n" mean one thing in the search box, and a
different thing in the replace box:
>From the help file:
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\n in the Search for text box stands for a line break that was inserted with
the Shift+Enter key combination.
\n in the Replace with text box stands for a paragraph break that can be
entered with the Enter or Return key.
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This means that I can never search for a paragraph break, and I can never
replace anything with a line break.
As these are two different characters, they should really be represented by
different expressions in the find/replace feature so that users have the
flexibility to find on either one, and replace with either one.</pre>
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