Bug 90625

Summary:	EDITING: restrict search to the beginning of a paragraph no longer working when combined with other wildcard searches
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Jon Rubin <darwinev0lved>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	major	CC:	ilmari.lauhakangas
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.4.2.2 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Windows (All)
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Description Jon Rubin 2015-04-15 04:48:00 UTC

When using advanced find and replace the ^ symbol should restrict searches to the beginning of a paragraph.
If I use a specific search e.g. : 
^q
then this works
It doesn't work if I use a broader search e.g. :
^[a-z]

This search will find every single letter in a document.

Using $ to find the end of a paragraph does still work.

Comment 1 Buovjaga 2015-04-17 18:50:47 UTC

I take it that by "advanced find and replace" you mean find & replace with regular expressions and not the extension by the same name.

It seems ^ with grouping finds every letter or number in the paragraph as long as the paragraph starts with the correct type and continues with it. If the type changes mid-paragraph, it will stop finding them.

So if I have ^[0-9] and the content:

1111aa111 <- it will not find the 1s that come after aa.
333 <- will find all of those 3s.
aa23 <- will not find 2 or 3.

This seems to be fixed in master, though, so I'm closing as WFM.
I don't have time to install 4.4.3 RC1 right now, but you might want to try it: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit 
Version: 4.4.2.2
Build ID: 40m0(Build:2)
Locale: en_US

Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 53d7c88da82f6d16c0c9a45a86a3f9d505764605
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2015-04-10_02:14:19
Locale: fi_FI

Comment 2 Jon Rubin 2015-04-18 01:09:34 UTC

Installed 4.4.3 RC1 and it is indeed fixed. Thanks.