Hi, We now have a simple "Use Wildcards" search (* and ? wildcards with \ escape) available in the Find&Replace dialog. It is *not* the weird wildcards implemented by MS-Word's Advanced Find, which would be a mix of shell wildcards and some fragments but not quite of regular expressions plus some own peculiarities. Instead of these we have full-blown regular expressions. It is more the very simple Excel wildcards, but with \ instead of ~ as escape character, in preparation for an office-wide usage.
This currently is visible and working only in Calc because it needs some adaption in the applications to support the new algoritm type css::util::SearchAlgorithms2::WILDCARD of the css::util::SearchOptions2::AlgorithmType2 field, respectively SvxSearchItem::GetWildcard() and/or the css::util::SearchDescriptor service's SearchWildcard property. In Writer I adapted all places that used css::util::SearchOptions to now use css::util::SearchOptions2 and css::util::SearchAlgorithms2 constants instead of css::util::SearchAlgorithms enums. It would need to inspect places where currently a check for css::util::SearchOptions2::AlgorithmType2 == css::util::SearchOptions2::SearchAlgorithms2::REGEXP or APPROXIMATE or SvxSearchItem::GetRegExp() takes place and additionally support WILDCARD or SvxSearchItem::GetWildcard(). Likely the handling is similar to APPROXIMATE or REGEXP without ReplaceBackReferences(). To activate the checkbox for Writer or Draw see svx/source/dialog/srchdlg.cxx places with TODO:WILDCARD comment. Happy wildcarding ;-) Eike -- LibreOffice Calc developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GPG key "ID" 0x65632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A Better use 64-bit 0x6A6CD5B765632D3A here is why: https://evil32.com/ Care about Free Software, support the FSFE https://fsfe.org/support/?erack
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