<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - search for regular expressions not usable any more" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130480#c4">Comment # 4</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - search for regular expressions not usable any more" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130480">bug 130480</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:erack@redhat.com" title="Eike Rathke <erack@redhat.com>"> Eike Rathke</a> <pre>It was never possible to search for multiple empty paragraphs with ^$^$ One empty paragraph can be matched with ^$, which anchors an otherwise empty expression to start and end, and is explicitly handled in Writer sw/source/core/crsr/findtxt.cxx FindTextImpl() with bool bChkEmptyPara = ... used in the DoSearch() call. You'll probably also find no regular expression engine that would support ^$^$^([:digit:]+)$^$^$ in the here intended way. Try at <a href="https://regex101.com/">https://regex101.com/</a> The \n also never matched an end of paragraph, but a newline entered with Shift+Enter, and still does. See <a href="https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/shared/01/02100001.html">https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/shared/01/02100001.html</a> for details.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>