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title="UNCONFIRMED - search for regular expressions not usable any more"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130480">130480</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>search for regular expressions not usable any more
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>6.2.8.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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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>forum+document@home.decotrain.de
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<pre>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</pre>
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