Issue 81730

Summary:	Find and replace regular expressions (regex) replaces entire selection
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	lars.nooden
Component:	editing	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	hanya.runo, issues, mike.hall, per.ooo, petr.dudacek
Version:	4.1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/2.3.0rc3_20070911/OOo_2.3.0rc3_20070911_MacOSXIntel_X11_install_sv.dmg
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	4.2.0-dev
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description lars.nooden 2007-09-19 09:25:18 UTC

If a block of text is selected, and then Find & Replace is run with the Regex
option, then the entire selection is replaced, not just the string / expression
searched for.

http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/2.3.0rc3_20070911/OOo_2.3.0rc3_20070911_MacOSXIntel_X11_install_sv.dmg

Comment 1 lars.nooden 2007-09-19 09:32:24 UTC

this is in writer

also in the OS X for PPC build:
http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/2.3.0rc3_20070911/OOo_2.3.0rc3_20070911_MacOSXPPC_X11_install_sv.dmg

Comment 2 rafaella.braconi 2007-10-17 15:33:12 UTC

Hi Stefan,

can you please have a look at this issue? Thx!

Comment 3 rafaella.braconi 2007-10-17 15:37:45 UTC

setting target milestone

Comment 4 mike_hall 2007-11-25 17:07:10 UTC

Doesn't need to have Regular Expressions checked. True for any 'Replace' if you
make a selection and don't do a Find first, even if the text in the Search for
box is not present in the selection. Problem is there in 2.3.0 on Vista as well
as on m9 and #237 on XP. If there is no selection, clicking 'Replace' does a
Find first, which is correct. However, 'Replace All' works correctly.

Is this not P2 as it leads to data loss? In certain circumstances eg if using a
macro, it could be quite hard to notice what has happened.

Comment 5 mike_hall 2007-11-25 17:11:26 UTC

... above comments apply to English versions.

Comment 6 rafaella.braconi 2008-04-04 10:08:37 UTC

Stefan,
can you please check if this is a langauge releated issue or not? thx!

Comment 7 stefan.baltzer 2008-06-09 15:13:59 UTC

This is NOT language-dependant. removed "[SV]" from summary.

Comment 8 per.ooo 2008-06-09 19:41:45 UTC

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for clearing this up. Is this concidered an issue, or would you like
to close it?

We can't fix the problem, if any, as we are not developers. If you do not
concider this an issue, please close.

Thanks a lot for your valuable time.

Kinds Regards
Per Eriksson

Comment 9 stefan.baltzer 2008-06-16 15:44:53 UTC

SBA->AMA: Please proceed, thx.