[Wylug-help] OpenOffice Regular Expression Search and Replace

[Mark Randall]

Hi,

There is a menu option to change the case in Format->Change Case (in 2.0.4).

In the replace part of the search box, you can specify an ampersand
(&) to insert what was matched in the regular expression - and I've
managed to change the case by using the font effects option - this
isn't as powerful as perl though, so may not be what you want
(especially as the underlying case is still actually there)...

Mark (using http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garryknight/linux/ooregexp.html)

On 30/05/07, Dave Fisher <wylug-help at davefisher.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Googling hasn't helped, so does anyone here know if OOo's search and
> replace command actually implements all of the regular expressions
> listed in the help page?
>
> OOo does seem to be able to find a class like [A-Z], but if I try to
> replace that with [a-z] all it does is replace every uppercase letter
> with the 5-character string literal '[a-z]'.
>
> I can't seem to write any incantation which will make OOo use POSIX class
> expressions (e.g. [:space:], [:lower:], etc) to find or replace.
>
> So, for example, how do people downcase a selection?
>
> Dave
>
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