Comments on OpenOffice.org Ninja: Powerful text matching with regular expressions

I must update my post. My dictionary is set to Sp...

2008-03-28T21:17:00.000-06:00

I must update my post. My dictionary is set to Spanish, and not only does spanish not seem to spellcheck, it also renders the regexp useless. Sorry for the post. Yes myspell-spanish is installed. :) I'm sure it's a configuration thing on my end.

Chao,

I could not get the duplicate word check to work. ...

2008-03-28T20:39:00.000-06:00

I could not get the duplicate word check to work. I set up several examples in writer 2.3.1.2 on openSuse 10.2. Is there a typo, or has something changed in my version? Thanks for the help.

Huw,You're sharp. I fixed those, and then I notic...

2008-02-04T07:47:00.000-07:00

Huw,

You're sharp. I fixed those, and then I noticed a few where it was written incorrectly that the white space was matched. Thanks! :)

Andrew

Oh. The backreferences link also still points to b...

2008-02-04T02:25:00.000-07:00

Oh. The backreferences link also still points to blogspot.

Developing nicely - a good resource.Here are a few...

2008-02-04T02:22:00.000-07:00

Developing nicely - a good resource.

Here are a few things I noticed:

Sets and Classes
[^ab] matches C and D too

Groups
three letter palindromes (palindromes not italicised)

Location
Words with exactly 4 (not 3) letters

Quantification
where x (not z) is an exact number of repetitions

Common Examples
Link still points to blogspot, not new domain.

Huw, nice catch! Thanks! I fixed it now. I lear...

2008-01-02T07:24:00.000-07:00

Huw, nice catch! Thanks! I fixed it now. I learned it is quite the task to proofread an article such as this.

Small typo (C&P error) - in the cd+ example you sa...

2008-01-02T04:28:00.000-07:00

Small typo (C&P error) - in the cd+ example you say "Matches: c followed by zero or more d's" but that should be "Matches: c followed by one or more d's".

Interesting article, thanks.