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| <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">List of Regular Expressions</title> |
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| <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3146765"><bookmark_value>regular expressions; list of</bookmark_value> |
| <bookmark_value>lists;regular expressions</bookmark_value> |
| <bookmark_value>replacing;tab stops (regular expressions)</bookmark_value> |
| <bookmark_value>tab stops;regular expressions</bookmark_value> |
| <bookmark_value>concatenation, see ampersand symbol</bookmark_value> |
| <bookmark_value>ampersand symbol, see also operators</bookmark_value> |
| </bookmark><comment>mw added "replacing;" and "tab stops;"</comment> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3146765" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" |
| oldref="203"><variable id="02100001"><link href="text/shared/01/02100001.xhp">List of Regular Expressions</link> |
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| <table id="tbl_id3149517"> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149741" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="17">Character</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155577" role="tablehead" l10n="U" oldref="18">Result/Use</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id6600543" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">Any character</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9824518.00000001" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG">Represents the given character unless otherwise specified.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152427" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="19">.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149031" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="20">Represents any single character except for a line break or paragraph break. For example, the search term "sh.rt" returns both "shirt" and "short".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154682" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="21">^</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155351" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="22">Only finds the search term if the term is at the beginning of a paragraph. Special objects such as empty fields or character-anchored frames, at the beginning of a paragraph are ignored. Example: "^Peter".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159194" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="23">$</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152542" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="24">Only finds the search term if the term appears at the end of a paragraph. Special objects such as empty fields or character-anchored frames at the end of a paragraph are ignored. Example: "Peter$".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156414" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="25">*</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155555" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="26">Finds zero or more of the characters in front of the "*". For example, "Ab*c" finds "Ac", "Abc", "Abbc", "Abbbc", and so on.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147399" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="27">+</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157958" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="28">Finds one or more of the characters in front of the "+". For example, "AX.+4" finds "AXx4", but not "AX4".</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145313" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="207">The longest possible string that matches this search pattern in a paragraph is always found. If the paragraph contains the string "AX 4 AX4", the entire passage is highlighted.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3143267" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="199">?</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153684" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="200">Finds zero or one of the characters in front of the "?". For example, "Texts?" finds "Text" and "Texts" and "x(ab|c)?y" finds "xy", "xaby", or "xcy".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3166410" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="158">\</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147209" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="159">Search interprets the special character that follows the "\" as a normal character and not as a regular expression (except for the combinations \n, \t, \>, and \<). For example, "tree\." finds "tree.", not "treed" or "trees".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152945" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="166">\n</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153700" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="167">Represents a line break that was inserted with the Shift+Enter key combination. To change a line break into a paragraph break, enter <emph>\n</emph> in the <emph>Search for</emph> and <emph>Replace with</emph> boxes, and then perform a search and replace.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9262672" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">\n in the <emph>Search for</emph> text box stands for a line break that was inserted with the Shift+Enter key combination.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2366100" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">\n in the <emph>Replace with</emph> text box stands for a paragraph break that can be entered with the Enter or Return key.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153258" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="29">\t</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157809" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="30">Represents a tab. You can also use this expression in the <emph>Replace with</emph> box.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150670" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="35">\b</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153666" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="36">Match a word boundary. For example, "\bbook" finds "bookmark" but not "checkbook" whereas "book\b" finds "checkbook" but not "bookmark". The discrete word "book" is found by both search terms.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149576" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="37">^$</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151245" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="38">Finds an empty paragraph.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148550" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="41">^.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159413" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="42">Finds the first character of a paragraph.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147282" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="43">& or $0</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153961" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="44">Adds the string that was found by the search criteria in the <emph>Search for</emph> box to the term in the <emph>Replace with</emph> box when you make a replacement.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149650" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="201">For example, if you enter "window" in the <emph>Search for</emph> box and "&frame" in the <emph>Replace with</emph> box, the word "window" is replaced with "windowframe".</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150543" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="206">You can also enter an "&" in the <emph>Replace with</emph> box to modify the <emph>Attributes</emph> or the <emph>Format</emph> of the string found by the search criteria.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145419" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="172">[abc123]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154630" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="173">Represents one of the characters that are between the brackets.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156293" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="174">[a-e]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149167" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="175">Represents any of the characters that are between a and e, including both start and end characters</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id100520090232005" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">The characters are ordered by their code numbers.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155994" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="176">[a-eh-x]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148676" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="177">Represents any of the characters that are between a-e and h-x.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145318" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="178">[^a-s]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153351" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="179">Represents everything that is not between a and s.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156543" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="180">\xXXXX</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153768" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="181">Represents a special character based on its four-digit hexadecimal code (XXXX).</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159252" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="208">The code for the special character depends on the font used. You can view the codes by choosing <emph>Insert - Special Character</emph>.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153951" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="186">|</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154985" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="187">Finds the terms that occur before the "|" and also finds the terms that occur after the "|". For example, "this|that" finds "this" and "that".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147376" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="209">{2}</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150103" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="210">Defines the number of times that the character in front of the opening bracket occurs. For example, "tre{2}" finds and selects "tree".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3151289" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="211">{1,2}</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147317" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="212">Defines the minimum and maximum number of times that the character in front of the opening bracket can occur. For example, "tre{1,2}" finds and selects "tre" and "tree".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id4870754" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">{1,}</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id843836" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">Defines the minimum number of times that the character in front of the opening bracket can occur. For example, "tre{2,}" finds "tree", "treee", and "treeeee".</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148616" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="213">( )</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2701803" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">In the <emph>Search for</emph> box:</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153573" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="214">Defines the characters inside the parentheses as a reference. You can then refer to the first reference in the current expression with "\1", to the second reference with "\2", and so on.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156061" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="215">For example, if your text contains the number 13487889 and you search using the regular expression (8)7\1\1, "8788" is found.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2367931" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">You can also use () to group terms, for example, "a(bc)?d" finds "ad" or "abcd".</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9200109" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">In the <emph>Replace with</emph> box:<comment>i83322</comment></paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5766472" role="tablecontent" l10n="NEW">Use $ (dollar) instead of \ (backslash) to replace references. Use $0 to replace the whole found string.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154790" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="226">[:alpha:]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147397" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="227">Represents an alphabetic character. Use [:alpha:]+ to find one or more of them.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152885" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="216">[:digit:]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150010" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="217">Represents a decimal digit. Use [:digit:]+ to find one or more of them.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153743" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="224">[:alnum:]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153281" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="225">Represents an alphanumeric character ([:alpha:] and [:digit:]).</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153726" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="218">[:space:]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150961" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="219">Represents a space character (but not other whitespace characters).<comment>UFI: see #i41706#</comment></paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150486" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="220">[:print:]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150872" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="221">Represents a printable character.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155854" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="222">[:cntrl:]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152576" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="223">Represents a nonprinting character.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149958" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="228">[:lower:]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145730" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="229">Represents a lowercase character if <emph>Match case</emph> is selected in <emph>Options</emph>.</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| <tablerow> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3148455" role="tablecontent" l10n="U" oldref="230">[:upper:]</paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| <tablecell> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3150092" role="tablecontent" l10n="CHG" oldref="231">Represents an uppercase character if <emph>Match case</emph> is selected in <emph>Options.</emph> |
| </paragraph> |
| </tablecell> |
| </tablerow> |
| </table> |
| |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id5311441" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Examples</paragraph> |
| |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id956834773" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">e([:digit:])? -- finds 'e' followed by zero or one digit. Note that currently all named character classes like [:digit:] must be enclosed in parentheses.<comment>issue 64368 and 113035</comment></paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id952368773" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">^([:digit:])$ -- finds lines or cells with exactly one digit.</paragraph> |
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| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id9568773" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">You can combine the search terms to form complex searches.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id71413" role="heading" level="3" l10n="NEW">To find three-digit numbers alone in a paragraph</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id2924283" role="code" l10n="NEW">^[:digit:]{3}$</paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5781731" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">^ means the match has to be at the start of a paragraph, </paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id6942045" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">[:digit:] matches any decimal digit, </paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id4721823" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">{3} means there must be exactly 3 copies of "digit", </paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5806756" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">$ means the match must end a paragraph. </paragraph> |
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| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1751457" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer">Wiki page about regular expressions in Writer</link></paragraph> |
| <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id5483870" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW"><link href="https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Calc">Wiki page about regular expressions in Calc</link></paragraph> |
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