Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 119375
Search for hexadecimal code (eg \x41 ) with regular expressions works wrong or not at all.
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:35:19 UTC
Assume the text of document is "A text text» A text text »text". When search for: Result: \xBB found », OK \x00BB not found, WRONG; help says: format \xXXXX \x41 not found, WRONG; should be found "A" \x0041 not found, WRONG; should be found "A" (RegExp is ON; WinXp SP3; OOo 3.4.0 build 9590)
Search with pattern \xXXXX had been OK with OOo3.4.0 beta (build 9583). I have Windows too, therefore do not change fields "Platform".
The engine for RegEx has been changed to ICU. The syntax is now slightly different. Use \u0041 and switch on "Match case". The help has to be adapted.
Please try to use the syntax from http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/tr18-13.html. Please report in a new issue, when something does not work in that syntax. I'll keep this issue as reminder to update the build help.
The problem is not updating of help. The main problem is failure backward compatability. They are macros that use old syntax \xNNNN, as well as the whole branch LibreOffice. If it's feature and not an bug, so it's very unfortunate.
*** Issue 121003 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
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