Search and Replace Tools
I have previously used the Alternative Find & Replace extension, but I'm receiving an error that a number of other users have received (screenshot attached). Their questions/tickets indicate that no resolution has been found and the developer has not responded to email or questions. I've reinstalled the extension multiple times. (I'm running Version: 6.2.5.2 (x64) on OS Windows 10, and the AltSearch extension is 1.4.2.)
What are the other options available for searching for formatting codes in a Writer file? For example, I need to locate any occurrence of "space paragraph return paragraph return" and replace that with a single paragraph return. This would be fairly straightforward in MS Word ( ^p^p --> ^p). I've tried searching by $, but it doesn't seem that symbol can be used in conjunction with other symbols, like to only find a paragraph return when preceded by a space.
Is there another recommended extension or different codes that can be used as regular expressions in Search/Replace? Thank you.
(edited on 2021-01-02 by ajlittoz to display the screenshot)
Hopefully you wouldn't use a chainsaw without having read the important parts of the manual.
Concerning AltSearch and its usage of Regular Expressions:
\psearches for a paragraph break.\p+searches for a sequence of paragraph breaks.Replacing
\p+with\pdoes it (in a clever way without needing to look for pairs of paragraph breaks again and again.I'm afraid that AltSearch wasn't working at all (see the error message screenshot attached) and isn't an option for search and replace, but I would be very interested to know if anyone has a solution for that Basic Runtime Error (it has been reinstalled multiple times but still won't run). Perhaps the answer is in my missing chainsaw manual. :-)