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title="UNCONFIRMED - BASIC-Editor: Matching start-of-line using a lone ^ does not work"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132870">132870</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>BASIC-Editor: Matching start-of-line using a lone ^ does not work
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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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>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>BASIC
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>andreas.heinisch@yahoo.de
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<pre>Description:
Matching start-of-line using a lone ^ does not work, or not correctly. It
seems impossible to prepend anything to a group of lines, for example, to make
them into a block comment by prepending "' " in Basic code.
Maybe now that someone who knows how Find & Replace works is here, this can be
looked at.
The problem is that ^ by itself does not match unless the line contains
something after the start-of-line position (i.e. it is not completely empty).
1. Open the ReplaceBug.ods demo and navigate to the Basic code as described in
the original comment.
2. Select lines 3-5, i.e., the empty sub declaration ("Sub Main", the empty
line, and "End Sub")
3. Control-H.
Check "Regular expressions"
Set Find: to the single character ^ (should match starts of lines)
Set Replace: to the character ' (the Basic comment-starter char)
Click Replace All
RESULTS: The apostrophie is prepended to only the non-empty lines.
EXPECTED RESULTS: Should be prepended to every line.
Actual Results:
Expected Results:
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:</pre>
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