Talk:Documentation/How Tos/Regular Expressions in Writer

References

Some of the matters arising with regex can be found in the OOo archives:

bugs:

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=39589

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=64265&highlight=regular

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=61200&highlight=regular

discussion:

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=8665&highlight=regular

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=61857&highlight=regular

issue:

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=15666 (now RESOLVED FIXED)

Examples

This is probably too arcane, but here's a discussion on the black art of finding octal, decimal, & hexadecimal numbers in Writer http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=66319

Octal   \<0[0-7]*\>
Decimal \<[1-9][0-9]*\>
Hex     \<0x[A-Fa-f0-9]+\>

Workarounds

In at least some versions of Linux it is possible to use unicode input to directly type a newline (line feed / soft line break/ U+000A) in the "Replace with" input box. There are no reports so far of this working on any other OS.

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2842#p2842

This means that for some people it is possible to insert a newline using Find & Replace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Input_methods

http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/000a/