Hi there,
I’m trying to select the following portion of formatted text between 2 chapters (Тема ХХ) with F&R and Regex. But I think I’m missing something in the pattern. Can you please advise? Thanks!
I’m using this simple greedy pattern to no avail yet: (тема \d{,2}).*(тема \d{,2})
I’ve attached a sample document to this post for testing. I’ve also tried all your suggestions, nothing works yet. But thank you anyway!
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-1- The {,n} quantifyer (with a default lower bound - which one?) is not supported. Use \d{1, 2} (or \d+ with its more general but probably acceptable matching).
-2- F&R cannot search beyond the next paragraph break (with a few specialized exceptions).
The REGEX() function (available in LibO v 6.2 or higher) will accept the .String content of a complete .Text object (if there isn’t a limitation to the number of characters I don’t know of), but its usage in Writer requires a bit of programming.
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Applied the strikeout since I don’t feel sure about the relevant part of the statement.
Will probably try later to get it right.
Killed the strikeout again. Explanation below.
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Attach a very raw and sloppy “proof of concept” for what I meant when talking of the REGEX() function.
It may be a bit tricky anyway because REGEX() seems to not accept CR (or CR LF) for the special character . for “any”. A substitution is needed.
I wouldn’t want to base serious work on that routine, but you may enhance it.
ask286951findAccrossBreaksSample_re.odt
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The regex implementations I have seen will assume default from = zero, so :
(тема \d{0,2}).*(тема \d{0,2})
However, as @Lupp indicated, Writer does not perform matching across paragraph boundary, so the pattern will never match a heading + body + heading sequence (which will cross at least two paragraph boundaries, probably more).
Also, if the leading ТЕМА is not explicitly typed into the heading, but rather part of the numbering scheme, it is not detected by find/replace.
It may be possible to offer better help if you
I tried the {,n} quantifier in LibreOffice recently, and it failed.
LibO uses the ICU RegEx engine, and Regular Expressions - ICU Documentation also doesn’t list the construct.
See also Regex Tutorial - Repetition with Star and Plus .
