Bug 96395 - search with regular expressions shows wrong results
Summary: search with regular expressions shows wrong results
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Reported: 2015-12-10 23:47 UTC by gorgonz
Modified: 2015-12-11 01:48 UTC (History)
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Description gorgonz 2015-12-10 23:47:49 UTC 
i used the search&replace dlg to find all words from type "benzin". Beeing lazy i used the expression "benz*", activating flags regExp and search all tables.
The results found all expressions of the type "ben*" like "Ausgaben" for example. That's definitely wrong ;-)

There are no fields for my env. I'm using
- OpenSUSE 13.1 64bit
- LO v5.0.3.2
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2015-12-11 01:48:40 UTC 
Hi @gorgonz,

regular expressions are not the same than wildcards used in other applications.

Here are the page help for regular expressions:
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions

In your specific case you can use (literally):
benz.*