Trying to replace character using Regex but do not work

[jtm4890]

trying to remove line break except dot, but looks like find / replace detect the regex but can not replace

LO Writer regex don not work.odt (13.4 KB)

Any help?

[robleyd]

Find: $
Edit: remove period that shouldn’t be there

Replace: Space or whatever you require.

List of Regular Expressions

[jtm4890]

for me do not work

in this image the regex [^.]$ is correctly detected, but when press the replace button do nothing.

[robleyd]

See my edit removing period (full stop) that shouldn’t be there.

[jtm4890]

using only $ the replace work, but I need add [^.] because I need to replace all line break except when a dot is the last character

[Wanderer]

@jtm4890

need to replace all line break except when a dot is the last character

Try the AltSearch extension as recommended in the following thread. Attention: You don’t have line-breaks, but paragraph-breaks.

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[fpy]

@jtm4890

dot

warning: in regex, . stands for any character.
to match an actual dot, you need to despecialized it → \.

@jtm4890

except when a dot

→ [^\.]

[Grantler]

@fpy

→ [^\.]

Are you sure? In square brackets you do not have to mask any character, it is literally “understood”. IMO

[fpy]

@Grantler

sure

@Grantler

square brackets

no fully,
but in this case you’re correct.