source/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.xhp | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
New commits:
commit e3caa53e99709b7099611b67cf73e9bdbd8801ea
Author: Pierre F <f...@bger.ch>
AuthorDate: Wed Aug 7 12:05:39 2024 +0200
Commit: Mike Kaganski <mike.kagan...@collabora.com>
CommitDate: Fri Aug 23 22:05:26 2024 +0200
more (simple) regex examples + fix note on paragraph limitation. tdf#38261,
tdf#159607
Change-Id: Ib96d4d8a4cef38bd90e33672f0d7c4445b2cd2fe
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/171538
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Pierre F <f...@bger.ch>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kaganski <mike.kagan...@collabora.com>
diff --git a/source/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.xhp
b/source/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.xhp
index d1a82ba302..e2f94ae306 100644
--- a/source/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.xhp
+++ b/source/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.xhp
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
<bookmark_value>paragraph marks;searching</bookmark_value>
</bookmark>
<h1 id="hd_id3150099"><variable id="search_regexp"><link
href="text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.xhp">Using Regular Expressions in Text
Searches</link></variable></h1>
- <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0509200916345516"
role="paragraph">Regular expressions can be used to search for some unspecified
or even invisible characters.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0509200916345516"
role="paragraph">Regular expressions are special patterns used to find and
manipulate text, helping you locate specific information within
texts.</paragraph>
<note id="par_id421554926388821">Searching with regular expressions is
different from searching with wildcards. %PRODUCTNAME Writer only supports
searching with regular expressions.</note>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155182" role="paragraph">You can use
regular expressions when you find and replace text in a document. For example,
"s.n" finds "sun" and "son".</paragraph>
<list type="ordered">
@@ -60,22 +60,29 @@
<listitem>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149641" role="listitem">The
regular expression for a single character is a period (.).</paragraph>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149642" role="listitem">The
regular expression for a word character \w, and \d for a decimal
digit.</paragraph>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153136" role="listitem">The
regular expression for zero or more occurrences of the previous character is an
asterisk. For example: "123*" finds "12" "123", and "1233".</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149609" role="listitem">The
regular expression combination to search for zero or more occurrences of any
character is a period and asterisk (.*).</paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149609" role="listitem">The
regular expression to search for zero or more occurrences of any character is a
period and asterisk (.*).</paragraph>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153138" role="listitem">The
regular expression for one or more occurrences of the previous character is a
plus sign (+). For example: "\w+" finds any word, "\d+" any number.</paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149854" role="listitem">The
regular expression for the end of a paragraph is a dollar sign ($). The regular
expression character combination for the start of a paragraph is a caret and a
period (^.).</paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0509200916345545"
role="listitem">The regular expression for a tab character is . More
generally, \s stands for all kinds of "spaces", like non-breaking space,
carriage return ... </paragraph>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0509200916345545"
role="listitem">The regular expression for a tab character is .</paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149854" role="listitem">The
regular expression for the end of a paragraph is a dollar sign ($). The regular
expression for the start of a paragraph is a caret and a period (^.). The
regular expression for an empty paragraph is ^$.</paragraph>
</listitem>
</list>
- <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153414" role="note">A search using a
regular expression will work only within one paragraph. To search using a
regular expression in more than one paragraph, do a separate search in each
paragraph.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153414" role="note">A search using a
regular expression will work only within one paragraph. That is, a
will match a line break within a paragraph.</paragraph>
<section id="relatedtopics">
<embed href="text/shared/01/02100001.xhp#02100001"/>
+ <embed
href="text/swriter/guide/removing_line_breaks.xhp#removing_line_breaks"/>
<embed href="text/scalc/guide/wildcards.xhp#wildcards_h1"/>
</section>
</body>
