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| jimav (james-avera) wrote regular expression ^ by itself does not work | #0 |
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In Find&Replace, a regular expression of "^" (without the quotes) never matches anything. It should match the front of every line.
For example, if you want to comment out a block of code in the Basic macro editor, it should be possible to
Find ^ in a selection and replace it with "rem " and have "rem " inserted at the front of all the selected lines.
But ^ alone does not work, and never matches any lines.
The use of of ^ alone to match the start of lines (and, similarly $ for end-of-lines) has been a fundamental feature of regular expressions in computer systems since they were first widely used in 1970s Unix. OO should not deviate.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 30 11:36:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-4ubuntu2 [modified: var/lib/
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64