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title="UNCONFIRMED - Help article is required for Wildcard functionality; and disambiguation with regular expressions."
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142574">142574</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Help article is required for Wildcard functionality; and disambiguation with regular expressions.
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>5.2 all versions
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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>Documentation
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mikekaganski@hotmail.com
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<td>olivier.hallot@libreoffice.org
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<pre>In 5.2 [1], wildcard match was added to be interoperable with Excel's matching
syntax (and 5.3 made it default [2]). But the help still does not explain what
wildcards are - see e.g. MATCH [3], which does not provide a clickable link on
"wildcards"; and typing "wildcards" in help search gives a link to regular
expressions [4] - even the help entry name in the right-hand "Contents" panel
is "Using Wildcards in Text Searches".
We have an issue which mentions the need to provide help for wildcards in Find
& Replace (<a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW - [HELP] Missing Help for options in Find & Replace dialog: General: Ignore diacritics/ kashida; Calc: Formatted display / Wildcards"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=103587">bug 103587</a>); this one is not related to F&R, but for spreadsheet
functions. Note how the term "wildcards" is confusing - e.g., it's used in bug
91336 to denote regular expressions.
[1]
<a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.2#Support_wildcards_to_be_compatible_with_XLS.2FXLSX_and_with_ODF_1.2">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.2#Support_wildcards_to_be_compatible_with_XLS.2FXLSX_and_with_ODF_1.2</a>
[2] <a href="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3#Option_settings">https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3#Option_settings</a>
[3]
<a href="https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060109.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3158407">https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060109.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3158407</a>
[4]
<a href="https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.html#bm_id3150099">https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.html#bm_id3150099</a></pre>
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