Bug 131872 - Wild characters don't give any results when searching
Summary: Wild characters don't give any results when searching
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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6.4.2.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
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Reported: 2020-04-04 11:20 UTC by carlram9871
Modified: 2020-05-02 21:32 UTC (History)
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Description carlram9871 2020-04-04 11:20:14 UTC 
Description:
I try searching a text using characters such as "*", "?", "."... and it doesn't find anything. It's the same with Writer, Calc...

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type "I don't like to wait"
2.Type "l*ke" o the search bar
3.

Actual Results:
Nothing found

Expected Results:
1 Result found "like"


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Versión: 6.4.2.2 (x64)
Id. de compilación: 4e471d8c02c9c90f512f7f9ead8875b57fcb1ec3
Subprocs. CPU: 4; SO: Windows 10.0 Build 18362; Repres. IU: predet.; VCL: win; 
Configuración regional: es-ES (es_ES); Idioma de IU: es-ES
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 ian 2020-04-10 13:44:09 UTC 
Are you referring to the capability described here: https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-US/text/swriter/guide/search_regexp.html?DbPAR=WRITER#bm_id3150099 ?
Comment 2 carlram9871 2020-04-10 17:20:24 UTC 
Yes. Sorry, it works OK.